Category: G

  • Ground tissue

    Tissue other than vascular tissue, i.e. pith, cortex and mesophyll.  

  • Grooved

    With long narrow indentations.  

  • Grex

    Grex

    A group of hybrids of the same parentage. A group of hybrid plants of the same parcntage, the term is used mainly in the context of orchid breeding. Grex names are given without quotes, such as Vanda Nellie Morley. A group of hybrid plants of the same parentage, whether the parent plants be species or…

  • Gregarious blooming

    Flowering of plants together at a fixed interval after a climatic stimulus, e.g. in some orchids such as Dendrobium crumenatum and Flickingeria spp., or in some Acanthaceae such as Mimulopsis species.  

  • Gregarious

    Growing in groups and locally dominant. A pattern of fruiting in which many mushrooms grow close together but are not attached to each other.  

  • Gravitropism

    Modern term for geotropism, specifying that gravity is the force involved in the growth of a plant (or part of a plant) towards the ground/downwards.  

  • Grapnel

    (In climbing plants) an anchor-shaped (sub)terminal structure of three or more hooks or flukes.  

  • Granulose

    Composed of grains. Covered with granules, like fine grains of salt.  

  • Granules

    Small amorphous, grain-like particles. A very small piece of something hard. A minute medicinal tablet, frequently encapsulated in a gummy or saccharine shell. A granule comprised of a rough and unrefined substance that has been infused or combined with a dynamic component, such as a plant safeguard, herbicide, or fertilizer, and is intended to be…

  • Granular, granulate

    (Of a surface) covered with small grains; (Of a substance) consisting of, or mixed with, small grains.