When you look at a daisy, you are not looking at a flower: you are looking at a very advantageous form of collaboration that some plants have developed. These collaborations are called inflorescences. As is the case for daisies, wheat and bougainvillea, what seems like a single flower is actually a combination of many smaller less conspicuous flowers. Their union makes the plant more visible to insects, who consequently visit it more frequently than plants with single flowers. Moreover, even Gramineae, which are pollinated by the wind, take advantage of this type of union, because they can produce more pollen. The inflorescences can take different forms, but generally, they are found on the top of the plant or are scattered on the surface of the foliage.
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