Flowering pattern and Potentiality to convert flowers into pegs and pods was studied in ten bunch cultivars of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.). In all the cultivare, except one, there was unimedal pattern of flowering In all types, except one, maximum flowering was in second week, since start of flowering. In case of JL-10, there was a slight bimodal pattern of flowering, the peaks being in second and fourth week, the maximum flowering being In 4th week. In JL-24 flowering span was of 5 weeks (very short) while in other nine cultivars it was 8 week to 9 weeks. On an average, 80 to 85 percent flowers were observed in the first five weeks, percentage of fully developed pods ranged from 8.3 to 15.6. The highest conversion capacity was in JL-24.
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