Question

any 5 examples of whorled phyllotaxy

Answer 1

Nerium odorum and Alstonia scholaris

Answer 2

Phyllotaxy is the botanical term for the arrangement of leaves around the stem. A whorl or a vertical arrangement is used to define the arrangement of leaves, petals, sepals, stipules that arise from a ‘single point’ and wrap around the stem. Whorled ‘phyllotaxy’ refers to the whorled arrangement of leaves.  

Five examples of this are as follows:

i) Aloe vera

ii) Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia)

iii) Japanese clethra (Clethra barbinervis)

iv) Lemonwood (Pittosporum eugenioides)

v) ‘Blackboard tree’ (Alstonia scholaris)