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The term head has a technical meaning in botany: it refers to a particular inflorescence.
A head, flower head or composite flower is an inflorescence composed of numerous individual flowers (= florets) that share the same basis and grow so closely together that they would appear to be a single flower. Such flower heads are a feature of the family Asteraceae, also known as Compositae, but are also common in many other groups such as Dipsacaceae and Plantaginaceae, usually not reaching the level of specialization of the single florets found among Asteraceae.
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