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Key to Native and Naturalized Genera of Ingeae
... , one arising from dorsal face of each stipule, or c) one or two axillary thorns [if misled hither by plant armed at nodes with a pair of epidermal ... plants with axillary short-shoots; perulate bud scales lacking; Greater Antilles and Bahamas only, Calliandra spp. affin. ...............................C. haematommati Bentham 3. Axillary thorns (sometimes at only few scattered nodes); axillary short- ...
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Vegetative Terminology (Part 2)
... colonies of stinging ants (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea) occupy the hollowed-out thorns and fiercely defend the tree against ravaging insects, browsing ... when wind blows across the large hollowed-out thorns. Since the "thorns" on these trees are technically pairs of modified ... axillary bud. Although they arise in a leaf axil, they are not homologous to a stem; therefore, they are not called thorns ...
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Mimosa borealis, fragrant mimosa
... to 2 m (6 ft) tall. Twigs glabrous, slightly zigzag, armed with basally flattened recurved thorns 5-8 mm (0.2-0.3 in) long. Leaves alternate, bipinnate, 1-2 cm ... , 3-5 mm (0.1-0.2 in) long, oblong to ovate. Inflorescence pink globose axillary heads about 1 cm (0.4 in) in diameter on peduncles about 2 cm (0 ...
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Canary Islands Laurel Forest
... centimeters long and up to 4-5 centimeters wide and deep green in colour. The axillary yellow-cream flowers are showy and have greenish veins. The fruit is reminiscent of a ... the coenosis with the "broom". It can easily be recognised as it is covered with thorns. Introduction | Coastal | Arid | Laurel | Pine fores | High mountain | Rocky | Ruin | Artificial | Glossary | Links ...
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VT Forestry I.D. Cards - sweet birch
... horizontal lenticels, later breaking into long, narrow, curling plates. Often displaying clusters of large, branched thorns on trunk. Form:A medium size tree with a typically short bole and an ... leaves having very shallow sinuses, lustrous shiny green above, paler with a scruffy pubescence and axillary tufts below. Flower:Monecious, males borne on slender yellow-green catkins; females are reddish ...
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Ohio Master Gardener Online Manual - GLOSSARY
... reduced in size or scale-like. Sometimes large and brightly colored. Bramble - any shrub with thorns in the rose family; usually refers to blackberries and raspberries. Branch crown - plant tissue that ... more intense light. Pinch - breaking off the terminal growing point of a plant to encourage axillary buds to grow. Pistil - the female part of the flower, consisting of one or more ...
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... is in the axil between leaf and stem and is called an axillary bud. Examples of some different types of leaf will be discussed ... green leaves (i.e. the spines are modified leaves.) Buds: An axillary bud (tucked in the leaf axil) may be capable of growing ... forms. Leafless, sharp-tipped branches can be thorns. Secondary Growth: In addition to the formation of thorns by branches and spines by leaves, the ...
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Abeliophyllum distichum
... Attracts Good cut flower Evergreen Winter interest Ground cover Will naturalize butterflies Good dried flower Thorns or spines General Culture: Easily grown in average, medium wet, well-drained soil in ... is grown primarily for its very early, often profuse, spring bloom which consists of dense axillary clusters of white (sometimes with a pink tinge), 4-petaled, slightly fragrant flowers which open ...
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Akebia quinata
... Good cut flower Evergreen Winter interest Ground cover Will naturalize butterflies Good dried flower Thorns or spines General Culture: Easily grown in most soils. Best in well-drained sandy ... which are dark green above and glaucous below. Small chocolate-purple flowers bloom in drooping axillary racemes in spring. Flowers are monoecious, with both staminate (male) and pistillate (female) flowers ...
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Gleditsia triacanthos L
... frost damage. The species is polygamo-dioecious; flowers are home in axillary, dense, green racemes (24). Racemes of staminate flowers are 5 to ... in the upper and outer crown growth as the tree ages. Thorns may still be produced on the lower trunk and on ... poor sites trees are stunted, wide-branched, and often covered with thorns. In eastern Nebraska, 18- to 35year-old honeylocust in plantations grew ...
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