The flowers of Spiraea x vanhouttei have a short hypanthium and an apocarpous gynoecium of 5 carpels with superior ovaries. Each carpels matures into a follicle, and thus from each flower comes a cluster of 5 follicles (yellow arrow).

Slides by K. R. Robertson from plants cultivated in Urbana, Illinois.

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