Ampelous rosette
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Type of rosette with a distinct main stem, producing lateral branches and hanging over the edge of the pot.
Glossary of terms
A reference section with categories and short explanations.
Ampel plants
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These are plants with long hanging shoots, grown in hanging pots and baskets (циссус, традесканция, сеткреазия, многие пеперомии, хлорофитум, камнеломка и др.). The name itself, translated from German, means "hanging vase for flowers." Amp…
Lateral shoot
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Secondary branch that grows from the side or from the base of the stem of a succulent plant.
Bonsai
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A method of cultivating plants in which, through bending, pruning, and other specialized techniques, a miniature form of a mature plant is produced.
Pseudobulb
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Thickened above-ground stem of many epiphytic orchids, varying in shape from elongated spindle-shaped to bulbously swollen, often covered with longitudinal folds or grooves.
Frond (fertile frond)
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A fern leaf that bears sporangia. Often it is not visually distinguishable from ordinary (non-spore-bearing) green leaves; however, in some species, for example the staghorn fern, this difference is quite pronounced.
Vegetative reproduction
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Reproduction without the aid of seeds by vegetative (non-sexual) organs of plants: stems, leaves, rhizomes, bulbs, cuttings, etc.
Vegetative shoot
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A shoot that does not bear flowers (in flowering plants) or sporangia (in spore-bearing plants).
Corolla
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The inner part of the double perianth of flowering plants, often brightly colored.
Species
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The primary structural unit in the system of living organisms. The principal taxonomic category in biological systematics. A species is understood as the aggregate of populations of individuals capable of interbreeding to produce fertile o…
Aerial roots
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Adventitious roots that develop on aboveground shoots and, as a rule, do not reach the substrate. Common in epiphytic orchids, some aroids, etc. Their main function is the absorption of moisture from the air and photosynthesis (in the latt…
Bulbil
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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…
Generative reproduction
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Sexual reproduction, reproduction by seeds.
Hybrid
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A plant produced by the union of genetic material from genotypically distinct organisms. In botanical nomenclature hybrids are denoted by "х".
Hydroponics
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Method of growing plants in which a nutrient solution is used instead of soil.
Hydrochory
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Dispersal of fruits, seeds, and other parts of a plant by means of water.
Hypocotyl
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Subcotyledonary node, the embryonic stem — a small section of stem between the root and the first (embryonic) leaves — the cotyledons.
Glochid
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A small, fragile, needle-like, often translucent spine of Pereskia and Opuntia cacti, with saw-toothed barbs.
Dioecious plants
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Species whose individual plants bear unisexual (only male or only female) flowers
Biennial
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A plant that completes its full life cycle from seed germination to the production of fruits and seeds in two years.
Ornamental foliage plants
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They provide ornamental interest either through an unusually striking leaf shape (ferns, philodendrons), or through the bright coloration of their leaves in the most unexpected combinations (begonias, marantas, crotons, many acanthaceous p…
Ornamental flowering plants
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This is a comparatively small group of plants that are grown solely for their beautiful, showy flowering. Among flowering houseplants there are shrubs, subshrubs, herbaceous plants, and bulbous plants. Among them one can single out specime…
Offset
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Traditional name for a lateral shoot, often with root primordia or already formed roots. Accordingly, the plant on which offsets form is called the mother plant.
Dichotomous branching of the stem
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Branching of the stem by the division of the apical growth point into two parts.
Glandular pubescence
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Pubescence of glandular hairs. Usually recognized by thickenings on the hairs. Glandular hairs (glandular trichomes, glands) are unicellular or multicellular outgrowths or hairs on leaves, stems, flowers and fruits that produce, concentrat…
Viviparous plants
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Plants that form bulbils.
Venation
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The arrangement of veins on a leaf.
Ovary
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Part of the pistil of flowering plants.
Zoochory
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Dispersal of fruits, seeds, and other plant parts by animals.
Variability
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The property of living organisms to exist in various forms. A distinction is made between genetic (hereditary) variability, which may be based on mutations, and modificational (non-hereditary) variability, which is based on the influence o…
Cachepot
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Decorative vessel or cover that conceals the container placed inside it holding a plant or bouquet.
Raceme
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Type of inflorescence.
Cladode
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A modified shoot with a flattened, long-lived, persistently growing stem that performs the functions of a leaf.
Cleistogamous flowers
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Flowers that do not open during flowering, self-pollinating.
Tuber
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A thickened fleshy underground shoot, usually with shortened internodes, or a thickened root. The latter is more often called a root tuber.
Tuberous bulb
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A thickened, modified underground shoot.
Spikelet
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The inflorescence of grasses, represented by a compact group of flowers.
Root collar
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The boundary between the root and the stem.
Rhizome
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An underground modified shoot with reduced scale-like leaves. In some plants, a rhizome is formed aboveground or half submerged in the substrate.
Large-sized trees
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These are mature trees with a well-developed branching system, with branches evenly distributed, reaching a height of more than two meters in coniferous species and more than four meters in deciduous species.