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Where on a cucurbit plant do flowers and tendrils grow?
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Cucurbitales
Pumpkins and gourds, order Cucurbitales.
In plants belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, both flowers and tendrils are located in the leaf axils—the point where a leafstalk diverges from the stem.12
In each leaf axil, there is typically a combination of structures, which may include a spirally coiled tendril growing off to one side, a vegetative bud, and flowers. The flowers are unisexual, meaning they are either male or female, and they are borne directly in these axils. The tendrils, which are generally regarded as modified shoots, serve to support the plant's vining stems by coiling around objects they encounter.12