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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... and white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), can excrete excess salt through special glands in their leaf blades and petioles. Red mangroves have root cell membranes which prevent the absorption of excess ... plant; however, according to Chuck Hubbuch of Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, the leaf is typically divided shallowly at the tip and is not truly entire. The tuberculate ...
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Flowering Plants
... 600), onions (Allium: 500), rein orchids (Habenaria: 600), tree orchids (Dendrobium: 900), bulb-leaf orchids (Bulbophyllum: 1200), dancing-lady orchids (Oncidium: 500), indigo (Indigofera: 700), sorrel ... leaf petioles functioning like leaf blades). Another group includes species with fernlike, pinnate leaves divided into small leaflets. Fourteen of the nearly 800 species of phyllode and pinnate-leaf ...
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Maiden Grasses
... center of any of the Miscanthus in my yard, even if I wanted to. The leaf blades are tightly packed and have very sharp edges. All of the six or so that ...
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Alismatidae UW Aberystwyth Botanic Gardens
... been suggested that the monocot ancestors were aquatic plants which lost their dicot-type broad leaf blades. When some of their evolutionary descendents adapted to terrestrial habitats, their leaves broadened again, this ...
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Ginger UW Aberystwyth Botanic Gardens
... almost all tropical and mostly occur in moist forests or wet open places. Their broad leaf blades may be an adaptation to a forest habitat, with low light and little wind. Right ... are propagated vegetatively by their basal corms. The visible plant consists of 'pseudostems' of overlapping leaf sheaths. The fruit-bearing inflorescences are thrust up the centre of the pseudostem by elongation ...
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ABS - Growing Bamboo Indoors
... dormancy is not achieved. This is not damaging to the plant, but often results in leaf drop. Aesthetically, and in terms of maintenance (house-keeping!), this must be understood, as the ... architectural silhouette of branches stretching out half again as wide. Its leaf blades are large (approximately 6 inches long) and each leaf shows a unique pattern of many creamy, white stripes. For that ...
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ABS Species List - L
... LITHACHNE Genus of clumping herbaceous bamboos from the tropical western hemisphere with asymmetric, truncate-based leaf blades. L. humilis 1 0.10 32 3 The small leaves fold down together at night ...
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Australia's Floral Emblem
... , true leaves are absent, their function being performed by phyllodes which are modified flattened leaf stalks lacking leaf blades. The leathery phyllodes are 6 to 20 cm long, broadly lance or sickle-shaped ...
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What Tree is That at arborday.org
... COMPOUND LEAF a leaf with more than one blade. All blades are attached to a single leafstem. Where the leaf stem ... blades or lobes or veins of the leaf arranged like fingers on the palm of a hand. PERSISTENT deciduous leaf blades that remain on the tree for more than one year. PETIOLE the leafstalk that connects the blade(s) to the twig. PINNATE blades or lobes or veins of the leaf ...
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Glossary of Tree Terms—The Tree Guide at Arborday.org
... that adheres strongly to the pit. compound leaf a leaf with more than one blade. All blades are attached to a single leafstem. Where ... twig. palmate Blades or lobes or veins of the leaf arranged like fingers on the palm of a hand. persistent Deciduous leaf blades that remain ... of a tree's chemical processes. pinnate Blades of lobes or veins of the leaf arranged like vanes of a feather. pistil ...
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