From Latinflos, floris +-i- +-ferous.
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floriferous (comparativemorefloriferous,superlativemostfloriferous)
- (botany) That bearsflowers (especially lots of flowers).
2015 September 5,Mark Diacono, “In praise of the Asian pear”, inThe Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[1], archived fromthe original on12 September 2015, page 3:Sofloriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next.
