monocarpic

1. (botany) (of a plant) That flowers and bears fruit only once before dying.Examples: "A nire accurate division of plants, as connected with flowering and fructification, is into monocarpic, or those which flower but once, and perish; and into polycarpic, or those which flower and ripen seeds several times before the entire plant, root and branch, perish."Synonyms: monocarpian, monocarpousnot-comparable