Floral calyx
Термины кактусовода
The outer covering of a flower with a double perianth, consisting of sepals, which may be free or fused together, green or brightly colored.
Glossary of terms
A reference section with categories and short explanations.
Flower buds
Термины кактусовода
Buds that contain only flower primordia. In this state they can remain on the stem for a long time and begin to develop only under optimal conditions and at the appropriate time of year, often associated with genetic memory.
Cephalium
Термины кактусовода
A woolly, densely bristly formation on the apices of the stems of certain cactus genera, or on their lateral parts, from which fruits and flowers emerge. The development of a cephalium leads to morphological changes in the stem in the area…
Vegetation cycle
Термины кактусовода
Periodically recurring phases of growth, flowering, and fruiting, alternating with stagnation (dormancy).
Cyclamen
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers, farewell, "Goodbye";
Zinnia (scarlet)
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers: constancy;
Zinnia (white)
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers: kindness, magnanimity;
Zinnia (yellow)
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers "I remember you every day";
Zinnia (red)
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers, lasting attachment;
Zinnia (mixed)
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers "I think of an absent friend";
Chaparral
Термины кактусовода
Subtropical formations of evergreen, low-growing xerophytic shrubs with isolated bare rock outcrops.
Sepals
Специальные термины
Small leaf-like structures that make up the calyx.
Calyx
Специальные термины
The outer part of the flower, together with the corolla, forming the double perianth. Composed of sepals that are free or fused to varying degrees.
Bird cherry
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers, joy.
Cuttings
Термины кактусовода
Parts of a plant used for rooting.
Propagation by cuttings
Термины кактусовода
A method of vegetative propagation of plants that involves cutting off a part of the stem followed by rooting.
Cutting
Термины кактусовода
A portion of stem separated from the parent plant, capable, after rooting, of restoring the plant's vitality as a whole.
Cutting
Специальные термины
Refers to a part of a plant that, under certain environmental conditions, forms the missing organs. Stem cuttings produce roots; leaf cuttings produce roots and buds. A cutting is taken from the tip of the shoot.
Cutting, leaf cutting
Термины фиалковеда
A leaf cut from a mature plant intended for subsequent vegetative propagation of Saintpaulia.
Bilberry
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers, trust;
Garlic
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers, courage, strength, bravery;
Stem segments
Термины кактусовода
Parts of cacti that exhibit segmented growth.
Articulate stem
Термины кактусовода
A stem composed of separate segments divided by distinct constrictions.
Shiblyak
Cадовые термины
Thickets of low-growing thorny xerophytic shrubs and small trees (wild rose, hawthorn, downy oak and others); unlike maquis, predominantly deciduous. Occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean (the Balkans, Eastern Crimea and the Caucasus) on sit…
Rosehip
Язык цветов - значения
In the language of flowers — spring and poetry;
Show foliage
Термины фиалковеда
Adult, symmetrically developed, neat foliage (in variegated plants - with a clearly developed regular coloration).
Espalier
Ландшафтные термины
A row of densely planted trees, pruned into a wall or trained on supports. The support is a wooden or metal lattice or wire stretched in several rows and attached to posts.
Trellis
Специальные термины
A wooden structure for climbing plants.
Spur, spurlet
Специальные термины
An elongated, often swollen and curved petal of the corolla or a sepal, or an outgrowth of these parts of the flower. It often serves as a nectar reservoir.
Bole
Cадовые термины
Part of the tree trunk from the root collar to the first branching.
Stem
Ландшафтные термины
The leafless, branch-free section of the trunk from the root collar to the first scaffold branch of the crown. As a rule, standard trees are formed for avenue plantings or as solitary specimens.
Scale insect
Термины кактусовода
Insect pest.
Shriveling of seeds
Термины кактусовода
Deformation of seeds due to their incomplete development, which may be associated with a sharp decrease in moisture during the ripening period.
Evolution
Термины кактусовода
Irreversible development of plants in the historical aspect of their origin and subsequent life processes, accompanied by the formation and modification of the genetic composition of populations and their adaptation to the environment in t…
Edatop
Термины кактусовода
The set of soil characteristics of a given environment.
Exotics
Термины кактусовода
Plants cultivated or introduced by humans into areas where they did not occur naturally.
Ecological niche
Термины кактусовода
The physical space with its characteristic ecological conditions that determine the existence of an organism; the place of a species in nature.
Ecotype
Термины кактусовода
Genetically fixed, ecologically formed race (group of individuals of a single species).
Ecotope
Термины кактусовода
(From Greek oikos - dwelling, habitat, and topos - place) the aggregate of abiotic environmental conditions of a given site that constitutes the habitat for a particular plant community.
Elite plants
Термины кактусовода
The best representatives of a genus or species, selected from collections as source material for their further propagation.