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---description--- the normal life of a foxglove plant is two seasons, but sometimes the roots, which are formed of numerous, long, thick fibres, persist and throw up flowers for several seasons. in the first year a rosette of leaves, but no stem, is sent up. in the second year, one or more flowering
. going from flower to flower up the spike, he rubs pollen thus from one blossom on to the cleft stigma of another blossom, and thus the flower is fertilized and seeds are able to be produced. the life of each flower, from the time the bud opens till the time it slips off its corolla, is about six days...
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