Biennial
Special terms
A plant that completes its full life cycle from seed germination to the production of fruits and seeds in two years.
Glossary of terms
A reference section with categories and short explanations.
Bonsai
Special terms
A method of cultivating plants in which, through bending, pruning, and other specialized techniques, a miniature form of a mature plant is produced.
Bract, bracteal leaf
Special terms
Reduced or modified green (or otherwise colored) leaf at the base of a flower. Sometimes several bracts are formed.
Buds
Special terms
Plant organs from which shoots, leaves, flowers, or whole plants develop. Distinguished are apical (terminal) buds at the tip of the shoot, axillary buds in the leaf axils, dormant buds that may remain unchanged for a year and sprout only …
Bulbil
Special terms
A more or less formed vegetatively produced primordium of a future plant in the form of a small rosette of leaves or a small bulb. After natural separation from the parent plant it serves for vegetative reproduction. Bulbils may arise in i…