Glossary of terms

A reference section with categories and short explanations.

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Callus

Термины по орихидеям

(From Latin Callus – thick skin, a callus) — tissue that forms on the surface of a wound and promotes healing of the injury. Adventitious roots are often initiated in the callus.

Cambial ring

Термины кактусовода

Sap-conducting vessels arranged as a cylinder along the axis of the stem. They appear as a ring in cross-section.

Cambium

Cадовые термины

Meristematic tissue located between the bark and the wood, composed of actively dividing cells; as a result of cambium differentiation, various tissues are formed.

Cambium

Термины кактусовода

Secondary meristematic tissue located along the length of the stem as a thin cylindrical layer of cells.

Camellia

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: admiration, perfection, gratitude;

Camellia (white)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers "You are wonderful!";

Camellia (red)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers "You are the flame in my heart!";

Camellia (pink)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers "I miss you";

Campos

Термины кактусовода

Local name for savannas — plains covered with perennial grasses with scattered trees or areas of shrub thickets.

Carotenoids

Термины кактусовода

(From Latin carota – carrot) – pigments of various colors contained in chloroplasts and chromoplasts.

Cartouche

Ландшафтные термины

An ornament in the garden parterre of the 17th–18th centuries, shaped like a partially unfurled scroll with curls. A cypher (monogram), the owner's emblem, was placed in the center of the cartouche.

Cascade

Ландшафтные термины

A special multi-tiered structure of stone or concrete used for the descent of streams of water at sites of rapid flow in natural rivers and brooks, as well as along artificial watercourses composed of a successive series of small terraces.…

Categorization of plants

Термины кактусовода

Division of plants into groups during their classification. The main classification categories are class, family, genus, species.

Caudex

Термины кактусовода

The lower perennial, lignifying parts of the stem or root of plants with a taproot system.

Cachepot

Ландшафтные термины

A decorative object made of ceramics, plastic, wood, or wicker for placement indoors and outdoors.

Cachepot

Специальные термины

Decorative vessel or cover that conceals the container placed inside it holding a plant or bouquet.

Chestnut

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, independence, injustice;

Cypress

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, sorrow;

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.

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.

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;

Cristate forms

Термины кактусовода

An anomaly (an unusual form) of plant development in which the growing point is stretched into a line and the cactus acquires a crest-like form.

Crocus

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: merriment, joy, vivacity, affection;

Crocus (yellow)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers "Are your feelings sincere?";