Glossary of terms

A reference section with categories and short explanations.

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Oyaki: (oyaki)

Термины Бонсай

The mother tree in air layering.

Outline

Ландшафтные термины

The linear outline of an object, the contour of a tree or shrub; 2) a plan of an area, drawn by hand, indicating the planting locations of plants, the arrangement of structures, roads, etc.

Ornamental foliage plants

Специальные термины

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

Специальные термины

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

Специальные термины

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.

Offsets

Термины кактусовода

Lateral shoots of cacti.

Offset formation

Термины кактусовода

The natural, genetically inherent ability to produce daughter stem shoots (offsets) in a number of cactus species, or induced artificially by removal of the stem's growing point.

Oak leaves

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers, friendship;

Ovary

Термины кактусовода

The lower, enlarged part of the pistil that contains the ovules.

Ovary

Специальные термины

Part of the pistil of flowering plants.

Own-root plants

Термины кактусовода

Plants that develop on their own roots and do not require grafting.

Oleander

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers attention;

Ontogeny (ontogenesis)

Термины кактусовода

Individual development, the entire complex of a plant's life activities and structure, beginning with its origin from a fertilized egg cell, a vegetative bud, or the division of a mother cell, and continuing until the plant's death.

Orange flowers

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: innocence, eternal love, wedding;

Orangery

Ландшафтные термины

A park structure with one or more halls intended for cultivating citrus and other exotic plants. It can serve as a winter garden.

Organic matter

Термины кактусовода

A component of soil that is of plant or animal origin.

Organic constituents

Термины кактусовода

Complex compounds of the substrate's soil fractions formed as a result of the decomposition of organic substances, for which carbon is an essential element.

Organic fertilizers

Специальные термины

Fertilizers of plant or animal origin, for example horse or cow manure, soil organisms, which are not absorbed by plants immediately.

Orchid

Язык цветов - значения

In the language of flowers: love, refinement, beauty, Chinese symbol of childhood;

Osmosis

Термины кактусовода

(From Greek osmos - pressure, push) - the ensemble of physico-chemical processes leading to thermodynamic equilibrium and the equalization of solution concentrations on both sides of a membrane. It is ensured by the slow transfer of low-mo…

Osmotic gradient

Термины кактусовода

Difference in osmotic pressure across a membrane.

Osmotic pressure

Термины кактусовода

Excess external pressure that must be applied to the solution side to stop osmosis — the influx of solvent into it through the semipermeable membrane separating them.

Offshoots

Специальные термины

Aboveground shoots formed from axillary buds on rhizomes and roots, easily detached and often possessing their own root system.

Offshoot

Термины кактусовода

A young shoot of a plant arising from the stem or root. Among hobbyists the terms "shoot" or "plantlet" are more commonly used.

Opposite leaf arrangement

Специальные термины

Arrangement of leaves in which two leaves arise from a stem node and are positioned opposite each other.