Glossary of terms

A reference section with categories and short explanations.

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Raceme

Специальные термины

Type of inflorescence.

Cladode

Специальные термины

A modified shoot with a flattened, long-lived, persistently growing stem that performs the functions of a leaf.

Classification of plants

Термины кактусовода

Systematization of the plant world based on the process of its historical development, with subsequent division into groups according to any similar characteristic or to several characteristics that recur from generation to generation.

Classicism

Ландшафтные термины

An artistic style of the 18th to the early 19th century that looks to antiquity and ancient art as the norm and ideal model. In Russian park design it is identified with the landscape (picturesque) style of layout, a rejection of regular/f…

Clover

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers "I would like to know...", expectation, fertility, domesticity;

Clover (white)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers "Think of me";

Clover (four-leaf)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, a symbol of good luck;

Cleistogamy

Термины кактусовода

(Cleistogamous flower) (from Greek kleistos - closed and gamos - marriage) - self-pollination and self-fertilization in flowers that do not open.

Cleistogamous flowers

Специальные термины

Flowers that do not open during flowering, self-pollinating.

Cell sap

Термины кактусовода

The liquid that fills the vacuoles of plant cells and is a product of their metabolic activity (mineral salts, amino acids, carbohydrates, organic acids, pigments).

Clone

Cадовые термины

Offspring of a single plant produced by vegetative propagation.

Clone

Термины кактусовода

A series of successive generations of genetically uniform individuals formed as a result of asexual or vegetative reproduction from a common ancestor.

Tuber

Специальные термины

A thickened fleshy underground shoot, usually with shortened internodes, or a thickened root. The latter is more often called a root tuber.

Tuberous bulb

Специальные термины

A thickened, modified underground shoot.

Flowerbed

Ландшафтные термины

A group of trees and shrubs on an open glade in a landscape park, formed in the shape of a circle or oval; in a formal park since the mid-19th century a flowerbed denotes a flower planting located at the intersection of paths, in front of …

Bellflower

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: humility, submissiveness, constancy; talkativeness; "Why do you torment me with whims?";

Bellflower (Irish)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, luck;

Column (gynostemium)

Термины по орихидеям

An organ unique to orchids, formed by the fusion of the stamens (one or two) with the style and stigma of the pistil.

Spikelet

Специальные термины

The inflorescence of grasses, represented by a compact group of flowers.

Pectinate prickles

Термины кактусовода

Prickles arranged in the form of a ridge.

Radial spines

Термины кактусовода

Spines located on the periphery of the areole.

Central spines

Термины кактусовода

Spines located in the center of the areole.

Commercial, industrial cultivar

Термины фиалковеда

A cultivar of Saintpaulias, grown in large quantities most often on Dutch and German farms for mass sale. Used by designers for interior decoration, but due to the use of hydroculture during cultivation it retains its decorative appearance…

Compartment

Ландшафтные термины

A separate garden-and-park composition in the gardens and parks of the 17th–18th centuries, parts of which formed the entire ensemble: for example, a parterre compartment consisting of identical flower carpets symmetrically arranged around…

Compost

Cадовые термины

An organic fertilizer obtained by the decomposition of organic waste of plant or animal origin.

Compost

Термины кактусовода

Fertilizer obtained as a result of the decomposition of various organic substances under the activity of microorganisms (the basis of compost is manure).

Convergence

Термины кактусовода

Similarity of traits that arises in the course of evolution in phylogenetically distant plants under the influence of similar environmental conditions.

Coreopsis

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, cheerfulness and merriment;

Root system

Термины кактусовода

The collection of a plant's underground roots. The taproot system has a primary root and lateral roots; the fibrous or fasciculate system — the primary root is weakly developed or dies early, and adventitious roots form a cluster, a fascic…

Root collar

Термины кактусовода

The point where the roots transition into the stem.

Root collar

Специальные термины

The boundary between the root and the stem.

Rhizome

Термины по орихидеям

Also: rhizome – rhizome - a subterranean, more or less perennial shoot of perennial herbaceous plants, as well as shrubs, serving for the storage of reserve substances, vegetative renewal and reproduction. It differs from a root by the pre…

Rhizome

Специальные термины

An underground modified shoot with reduced scale-like leaves. In some plants, a rhizome is formed aboveground or half submerged in the substrate.

Root cutting

Cадовые термины

A section of root (rhizome) used to propagate a plant.

Root hairs

Термины кактусовода

Absorbing, dying off as the root grows.

Root primordia

Термины кактусовода

Groups of cells from which new roots develop.

Root suckers

Термины кактусовода

Shoots arising from adventitious buds.

Root parasites

Термины кактусовода

Plant pests that damage roots.

Own-root plants

Термины кактусовода

Plants that develop on their own roots and do not require grafting.

Nettle

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, slander;