flowering

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But by developing genetic markers for particular traits - colour, shape, disease resistance, flowering longevity and so on - Floricultura and its competitors can try to speed up the process of selective breeding.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

He argues that this pressure is necessary to force regime change and a flowering of private enterprise.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026

It’s relaxed, unpretentious, with delicious modern British food—and just a 15-minute drive to the flowering camellias at Abbotsbury.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The researchers found evidence that certain sequences originated before flowering plants diverged from their non-flowering ancestors more than 400 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

And the suitors mad with fear at her great sign stampeded like stung cattle by a river when the dread shimmering gadfly strikes in summer, in the flowering season, in the long-drawn days.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer