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Funicle
The stalk of the ovule or seed attaching it to the placenta, seed stalk.
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Fungiliform
Mushroom-shaped, with a relatively thin cylindrical stalk and a much wider cap [unusual term, not recommended].
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Functionally male
Used when both female and male parts are present in the flower but only the male parts are in working order.
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Fulvous
(Colour) yellow, tawny.
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Fugaceous, fugacious
Falling off early; fugaceous is the preferred spelling. Quickly falling or perishing.
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Fruticulose
Like a small shrub [unusual term, not recommended].
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Fruticose
With the characters of a shrub, shrubby. Lichen growth form in which the thallus (main structure of lichen) is generally erect and branching. Shrubby, with more than one major stem.
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Frutex
A woody plant without a trunk [?oldfashioned term].
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Frutescent
With the characters of a shrub; Becoming shrubby. Somewhat shrubby.
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Fruitlet
A part of the fruit that functions as a separate seed-dispersing unit; examples are cocci, mericarps or follicles. A part of the fruit that functions as a separate seed-dispersing unit.
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