Category: B

  • Calathium

    A compact cluster of ± sessile flowers.  

  • Buzz-pollination

    Buzz-pollination

    Usually of flowers with porate anthers, where the pollen is shaken from the thecae by the vibration of the body of a visiting bee.  

  • Buttressed

    Buttressed

    Of the lower trunk of a tree, with buttresses.  

  • Buttress

    Buttress

    Mechanical supporting system at the base of a tree, usually a woody fin. Flattened support structures at the base of the trunk of certain types of trees, particularly in the tropics. Planklike supporting structure extending outward from the base of a tree trunk at the juncture of the roots and trunk. Some are relatively narrow…

  • Bush

    Bush

    Woody plant intermediate between shrub and tree, 3–7 m high and usually multistemmed [not recommended]; Low and thick shrub, usually without a distinct trunk [not recommended]; Often used in the same sense as shrub [shrub is preferred in this case]; Undefined term for dense vegetation [not recommended, bushland seems better]. Woody plant with many stems…

  • Bursicle

    Bursicle

    In Orchidaceae, a flap- or sheath-like base covering the viscidium.  

  • Burr

    Burr

    Rough, prickly envelope of a fruit, formed of cohering prickly bracts, accrescent calyx or pericarp; sometimes spelled bur; Woody swelling of trees, usually at the base of the trunk, associated with epicormic shoots. A bit used with a drill to make holes in a bone such as the cranium ‘or in a tooth.  

  • Bundle-sheath

    Cylinder of cells surrounding a vascular bundle.  

  • Bundle scar

    Marking within a leaf scar where the vascular bundle (vein) was broken.  

  • Bundle

    A strand of specialised tissue, variously modified. A group of nerves running in the same direction. Cluster (fascicle) of filaments or elongated parts, specifically muscle fibers or nerves (e.g., bundle of His). A group of nerve fibers situated close together and running in the same direction; e.g. the atrioventricular bundle. A fascicle, which is commonly…