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Cannabis is a dioecious annual flowering herb. It is a dicot. The leaves are palmately compound, with serrate leaflets. During the vegetative phase of growth, there is one leaflet on the first true leaf, three leaflets on the second, five on the third, and so on, up to about seven for C. sativa subsp. indica, and eleven for C. sativa subsp. sativa. In the reproductive phase, the number of leaflets per leaf reduces to a single leaflet, and ultimately none at the terminal bud. Leaf arrangement is opposite in the vegetative phase, and alternate in the reproductive phase.
Cannabis usually has imperfect, unisexual flowers; the male (staminate) reproductive structures are completely separate from the female (carpellate, sometimes called pistillate) structures, [2] [3] although sometimes perfect hermaphrodite flowers also occur.[4] Cannabis is dioecious [2], which means that entire plants usually bear only male or only female flowers, with male flowers borne on loose panicles, and female flowers borne on racemes.[5] However it is not unusual for individual plants to bear both male and female flowers, a condition called monoecy. [6] Flowers of both sexes sometimes occur on separate inflorescences, or sometimes within the same inflorescence. [4] Dense clusters of female flowers produced by drug varieties of Cannabis are commonly called "buds" although in this usage the term refers to clusters of mature flowers, rather than the undeveloped shoots that the word ordinarily describes.
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Cannabis is a dioecious annual flowering herb. It is a dicot. The leaves are palmately compound, with serrate leaflets. During the vegetative phase of growth, there is one leaflet on the first true leaf, three leaflets on the second, five on the third, and so on, up to about seven for C. sativa subsp. indica, and eleven for C. sativa subsp. sativa. In the reproductive phase, the number of leaflets per leaf reduces to a single leaflet, and ultimately none at the terminal bud. Leaf arrangement is opposite in the vegetative phase, and alternate in the reproductive phase.
Cannabis usually has imperfect, unisexual flowers; the male (staminate) reproductive structures are completely separate from the female (carpellate, sometimes called pistillate) structures, [2] [3] although sometimes perfect hermaphrodite flowers also occur.[4] Cannabis is dioecious [2], which means that entire plants usually bear only male or only female flowers, with male flowers borne on loose panicles, and female flowers borne on racemes.[5] However it is not unusual for individual plants to bear both male and female flowers, a condition called monoecy. [6] Flowers of both sexes sometimes occur on separate inflorescences, or sometimes within the same inflorescence. [4] Dense clusters of female flowers produced by drug varieties of Cannabis are commonly called "buds" although in this usage the term refers to clusters of mature flowers, rather than the undeveloped shoots that the word ordinarily describes.
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