"Spathe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... females; for the males make the fruit persist and ripen, and this some call by analogy to use the wild fig (ολυνθαζειν {olynthazein}).[27] The process is thus: when the male is in the flower they at once cut off the spathe with the flower and shake the bloom, with its flower and dust, over the fruit of the female, and, if it is thus treated, it retains the fruit and does not shed it.'[28] The fertilizing character of the spathe of the male date palm was familiar in Babylon from a very early ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various |
