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  2. Woody plant - Wikipedia

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    A section of rosemary stem, an example of a woody plant, showing a typical wood structure. A woody plant is a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue and thus has a hard stem. [1] In cold climates, woody plants further survive winter or dry season above ground, as opposed to herbaceous plants that die back to the ground until spring. [2]

  3. Vine - Wikipedia

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    The climbing fetterbush (Pieris phillyreifolia) is a woody shrub-vine which climbs without clinging roots, tendrils, or thorns. It directs its stem into a crevice in the bark of fibrous barked trees (such as bald cypress) where the stem adopts a flattened profile and grows up the tree underneath the host tree's outer bark. The fetterbush then ...

  4. Bark (botany) - Wikipedia

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    Bark is present only on woody plants - herbaceous plants and stems of young plants lack bark. Tree cross section diagram. From the outside to the inside of a mature woody stem, the layers include the following: [20] Bark Periderm Cork (phellem or suber), includes the rhytidome; Cork cambium (phellogen) Phelloderm; Cortex; Phloem; Vascular ...

  5. ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers for NYT's Tricky ... - AOL

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    Read no further until you really want some clues or you've completely given up and want the answers ASAP. Get ready for all of the NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #258 on Saturday ...

  6. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [31] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...

  7. Plant stem - Wikipedia

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    Stem showing internode and nodes plus leaf petioles This above-ground stem of Polygonum has lost its leaves, but is producing adventitious roots from the nodes. Xylem and Phloem A stem is one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant , the other being the root .

  8. Underground stem - Wikipedia

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    Underground stems are modified plant parts that derive from stem tissue but exist under the soil surface. [1] They function as storage tissues for food and nutrients, facilitate the propagation of new clones, and aid in perennation (survival from one growing season to the next). [ 2 ]

  9. Conifer cone - Wikipedia

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    The fleshy scale complex is 0.5–3 cm long, and the seeds 4–10 mm long. In some genera (e.g. Prumnopitys), the scales are minute and not fleshy, but the seed coat develops a fleshy layer instead, the cone having the appearance of one to three small plums on a central stem. The seeds have a hard coat evolved to resist digestion in the bird's ...