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Kneeling stem
Lower part of a plant stem lying against ground while the top of the stem is growing upward. Also called reclining stem.
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Inferior ovary
The ovary is positioned below the base of the flower parts. The old, remnant flower parts, or scar, will be located at the top of the fruit. An ovary below the calyx and/or corolla (ie, the rest of -the flower sits on top of it). The sepals and petals are attached to the side or…
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Epiphytic
Plants growing on other plants. Many ferns, orchids, and bromeliads and even shrubs grow on tree branches. Not parasitic.
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Colonial
Plants with several, or numerous, separate stems arising from a common system of roots, underground stems (rhizomes), above-ground runners, bulb off-shoots, or other means of asexual (vegetative) reproduction.
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Bilaterally symmetrical
Two sides are mirror images of one another, like the two sides of a face.
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Bean flower shaped
Same as “pea-flower-shaped.” Flowers of the family Fabaceae/Faboideae.
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Amazonia
Amazon River Basin, including northern Brazil, most of Columbia, southern Venezuela, and eastern Ecuador, Peru, and northeastern Bolivia.
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Venotonic
Promotes venous circulation.
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Exudation
Oozing of fluids or accumulation of fluid in a cavity. The escape of material such as fluid or cells into tissue as a defence mechanism. Slow escape (oozing) of fluids and cellular matter from blood vessels or cells through small pores or breaks in the cell membranes, sometimes the result of inflammation. The slow escape…
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Canker
An ulcerous sore on the lips, cheek or tongue. A lesion, chiefly of the mouth and lips, due to a virus or a vitamin deficiency. This passage describes a type of injury to a plant, which is caused by the breakdown of tissues surrounding the plant’s xylem cylinder. This breakdown can occur in the main…
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