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Pedicel
The stalk of an individual flower in an inflorescence; (In Gymnospermae) used as the stalk of a scale [not a recommended usage]; (In pteridophytes) the stalk supporting the sporangium; (In Compositae) applied to the stalk of individual capitula when plants bear several capitula in their inflorescences; Linnaeus used peduncle for ‘the stem bearing flowers and…
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Pedatisect
Side lobes divided almost to midrib.
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Pedatipartite
With pedate division, the lobes almost free.
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Pedatilobed
Side lobes lobed, i.e. divided but not to the midrib.
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Pedatifid
With pedate division, the lobes shallow.
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Pedate-laciniate
Minutely dissected at the margin with the narrow lobes almost free but joined at the base.
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Pedate
Close to palmate, but the side lobes or divisions further lobed or divided successively, one from the other, thus not all arising from the same point. Palmately cleft, with the lobes again cleft.
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Pectinate
Like a comb, with very close, narrow and parallel divisions.
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Pearl bodies
Food bodies for ants, found especially in many legume species, which encourage ants to defend the plant against herbivores.
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Peach
(Colour) pinkish orange. In 334 B.C., Alexander the Great did two things: he conquered Persia and he sent back to Greece the pits of a few peaches, a fruit that neither he nor anyone else in Europe had seen before. The pits were planted, the trees thrived, and soon Alexander’s peaches were being introduced all…
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