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roots also used as a vegetable (leaves and roots) and sugar substitute (roots) Quinine: Cinchona officinalis and related species: Rubiaceae: tree culinary (rarely), medicinal bark main culinary use is as tonic water: Cassia: Cinnamomum cassia: Lauraceae: tree culinary, medicinal bark, buds often sold as cinnamon sticks: Indian bay leaf ...
Found in the leaf, bud, seed, root, and stem tissues, tannins are widely distributed in many different species of plants. Tannins are separated into two classes: hydrolysable tannins and condensed tannins. Depending on their concentration and nature, either class can have adverse or beneficial effects.
Bud; Crown (botany) Heteroblasty, an abrupt change in the growth pattern of some plants as they mature; Lateral shoot; Phyllotaxis, the arrangement of leaves along a plant stem; Seedling; Sterigma, the "woody peg" below the leaf of some conifers; Thorn (botany), true thorns, as distinct from spines or prickles, are short shoots
In plant morphology, a cataphyll (sometimes also called a cataphyllum [1] or cataphyll leaf [2]) is a reduced, small leaf. [3] Many plants have both "true leaves" ( euphylls ), which perform most of the photosynthesis , and cataphylls, which are modified to perform other functions.
An epicormic shoot is a shoot growing from an epicormic bud, which lies underneath the bark of a trunk, stem, or branch of a plant. Epicormic buds lie dormant beneath the bark, their growth suppressed by hormones from active shoots higher up the plant.
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Aestivation is also sometimes referred to as praefoliation or prefoliation, but these terms may also mean vernation: the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud. Aestivation can be an important taxonomic diagnostic; for example Malvaceae flower buds have valvate sepals, with the exception of the genera Fremontodendron and Chiranthodendron ...
The lower leaf pairs usually occur in an opposite leaf arrangement and the upper leaf pairs in an alternate arrangement on the main stem of a mature plant. The leaves have a peculiar and diagnostic venation pattern (which varies slightly among varieties) that allows for easy identification of Cannabis leaves from unrelated species with similar ...