Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1576/en

continues, at last accompanied still by narrow, pointed bracts. In the inflorescence the branching reduces to the two lateral shoots. The central shoot dams up into a terminal flower bud. The lateral shoots overgrow this and end on a second tier again in a flower bud, which is in turn overgrown by two lateral shoots — and so this process repeats itself on a third tier. The individual florets — there can be up to 2,000 of them — gather together and form, closely compressed, the cyme or paniculate umbel. All the processes that play themselves out in valerian between the poles of earth and cosmos in a metamorphosis that builds upon itself end in the blossom: on the one hand expanding into the element of air in fragrance, on the other condensing toward the formation of seed.