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Chloroplasts in leaf cells of the moss Mnium stellare. Plant anatomy or phytotomy is the general term for the study of the internal structure of plants.Originally, it included plant morphology, the description of the physical form and external structure of plants, but since the mid-20th century, plant anatomy has been considered a separate field referring only to internal plant structure.
Pinus merkusii is closely related to the Tenasserim pine (P. latteri), which occurs farther north in southeast Asia from Myanmar to Vietnam; some botanists treat the two as conspecific (under the name P. merkusii, which was described first), but P. latteri differs in longer (18–27 cm or 7– 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and stouter (over 1 mm thick) leaves and larger cones with thicker scales, the cones ...
Stems are often specialized for storage, asexual reproduction, protection, or photosynthesis, including the following: . Climbing stem of Senecio angulatus.. Acaulescent: Used to describe stems in plants that appear to be stemless.
Hibiscus [2] [3] is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae.The genus is quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world.
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll.
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ ˌ æ n dʒ i ə ˈ s p ər m iː /). [5] [6] The term 'angiosperm' is derived from the Greek words ἀγγεῖον / angeion ('container, vessel') and σπέρμα / sperma ('seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed within a fruit.
Common ash (Fraxinus excelsior), a deciduous broad-leaved tree European larch (Larix decidua), a coniferous tree which is also deciduousIn botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves.
Artocarpus elasticus of the Mulberry Family (Moraceae) and commonly called terap nasi or terap, [2] is a rainforest tree of maritime and mainland Southeast Asia, growing up to 45 metres (150 ft) (occasionally as much as 214 feet (65 meters)) [3] in height with a diameter at breast height of about 1 metre (3 ft).