Glossary of terms

A reference section with categories and short explanations.

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Latifolius

Термины Бонсай

Broad-leaved

Leptolepis

Термины Бонсай

Thin-scaled

Luteus

Термины Бонсай

Yellow

Lateral shoot

Специальные термины

Secondary branch that grows from the side or from the base of the stem of a succulent plant.

Lady's slipper

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, capricious beauty, inconstancy;

Lawn

Ландшафтные термины

A man-made turf sward composed of perennial grasses. Depending on their purpose, lawns are classified as sports, special-purpose, and ornamental (parterre, common, and meadow).

Lip

Термины по орихидеям

One of the perianth segments, differing from the others in shape, often in color and size.

Lignification

Термины кактусовода

See lignification.

Life form

Термины кактусовода

1. The external appearance of plants reflecting their adaptability to environmental conditions. 2. A unit of ecological classification of plants with a similar adaptive structure.

Large rosette

Термины фиалковеда

A type of rosette in which its size reaches 40–60 cm.

Large-sized trees

Специальные термины

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.

Large flower

Термины фиалковеда

A type of flower whose size exceeds 4 cm (for example, in Pink Amiss).

Labyrinth

Ландшафтные термины

Intricate passages; appeared in gardens of the Renaissance era and became widespread in Russian parks of the 18th–19th centuries. Labyrinths in parks are usually formed from tall clipped living hedges (using hornbeam, linden, laurel). Unti…

Lavender

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, admiration, solitude;

Lavender (white)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: fulfillment of wishes, protection;

Laminaria

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, sadness;

Landscape

Ландшафтные термины

1) a natural territorial complex, an area of the Earth's surface bounded by natural limits, within which natural components (relief, soil, vegetation, bodies of water, climate, animal life), as well as artificial, i.e. anthropogenic compon…

Landscape architecture

Ландшафтные термины

The architecture of open spaces, a branch of urban planning whose goal is the formation of a favorable external environment for people’s daily life and recreation in cities, suburban and resort areas, and rural areas, taking into account f…

Lateral position

Специальные термины

The position of any part of an organism to the side of the median plane.

Lectotype

Термины кактусовода

A specimen selected as the nomenclatural type from the original material not by the author of the description but by subsequent researchers (in the absence or loss of the holotype)

Lianas

Специальные термины

These are plants with long herbaceous or woody stems. They require a permanent support. Lianas differ in the way they attach to a support. For example, the stems of asparagus twine around a support; in others this function is performed by …

Lily (white)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: purity, virginity, majesty, "It's divine to be near you!!!";

Lily (yellow)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, gratitude, brightness, but also frivolity, deceit;

Lily (calla)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: beauty;

Lily (orange)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers hatred, disgust;

Lily (sacred)

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, maidenly charms;

Leaf mold

Термины кактусовода

Soil composed of decayed leaves - leaf mold

Leaf succulent

Специальные термины

A plant that has water-storing tissues in its leaves, containing large amounts of water.

Leaf arrangement

Специальные термины

The order of attachment of leaves on the stem.

Lithophyte

Термины по орихидеям

(From Greek Lithos – stone, phyton – plant) — a plant growing on stones and rocks.

Lomas

Термины кактусовода

The plant formation of the Pacific coastal deserts of South America, which includes ephemerals, epiphytes, etc., whose vegetation occurs in the winter and spring periods under the influence of frequent fogs and drizzle (garua).

Lotus

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, happiness, health, long life;

Lusthaus

Ландшафтные термины

A garden pavilion of the large gazebo type, usually with lavish architectural ornamentation. The term was widely used in the early 18th century (for example, the Lusthauses of the second Summer Garden in St. Petersburg are known).

Lignification

Термины кактусовода

The final phase of cellular life, when cell walls become rigid and strong and the cells ultimately die.

Litter

Термины кактусовода

Dead plant parts that have fallen onto the soil surface and constitute the main portion of the decomposition products that form the soil's organic structure.

Layering

Специальные термины

This is a part of a stem or root bearing buds that is bent away from the parent plant and covered with soil to produce a new plant.