----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Fikso" <adam14113@ameritech.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Agave virginica > Re monocarpic (not) A. virginica, etc --- And aren't Kniphofia and > Bromeliads also on the same kind of schedule? > > I guess somehow, I "learned" that the terms annual, biennial, perennial > were to be applied only to dicots. Monocots have such different > arrangements for flowering--and if one gets into orchids where the male > and > female flowers can look so different--well... > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/