Monocarpous Plant (Noun)
Meaning
A plant that bears fruit once and dies.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The agave is an example of a monocarpous plant, producing a flower stalk only once in its lifetime before dying.
- Bamboos are monocarpous plants that take decades to mature, then flower and seed heavily before dying.
- Soranje bamboo displays monocarpic behavior, indicating that these are monocarpous plants that flower and die in just one reproductive cycle.
- The talipot palm is another monocarpous plant that lives for many years but only produces one enormous flowering stalk in its lifetime before dying.
- After its primary productivity has been reached, the palms and bamboos, being monocarpous plants, exhibit distinct signs of their impending death.