The petals of the staminate flowers are sometimes collected and eaten.
There is a ring of 25 to 35 staminate flowers around one pistillate flower.
At any one time, a plant produces only functionally staminate or carpellate flowers.
The male, staminate flowers have visible anthers 2 millimeters long or longer.
At the center of this arrangement are several staminate flowers and one long pistillate flower.
The staminate flowers range from 20-30 and there are 19-43 pistillate flowers.
One of these clusters developed a partial staminate flower but fertilization was unsuccessful.
The staminate flowers look quite similar, thinner but larger overall and denser.
The terminal spike is made up of staminate flowers.
The staminate flowers contain between 4 and 12 stamens, often with 8.
