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flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. In botany, the term refers to the way individual flowers are arranged on the axis (floral stem). An inflorescence is said to be indeterminate if the number of flowers may increase after the first flower opens, even while others are opening, and determinate if the number of flowers cannot increase after the first flower opens. With indeterminate inflorescent clusters, the most proximal flowers (ie. those closest to the base) open first; in the case of determinate flower clusters, the most distal fl ...

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Carrion flower

Stinking flowers or Carrion flowers are remarkably known because they have showy blossoms with the stench of rotting flesh. A typical flower may be stereotyped as a colorful, sweet-smelling structure that attracts insects. A variety of insects find the showy petals and fragrance irresistible, and the reward for their pollination service is a carbohydrate-rich, sugary nectar secretion from the flower. While this scenario fits the majority of flowering plants, there are many notable exceptions. Some plants rely on wind or water for pollination, and produce inconspicuous flowers with copious airborne or wa ...

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Cronquist system

The Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist (1919- 1992) in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants (1988). Cronquist's system places flowering plants into two broad classes, monocotyledons and dicotyledons. Related orders are placed into subclasses. Although the scheme is still widely used, it has been displaced by the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification f ...

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Botany

Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s) or plant biology. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, ecology, and evolution of plants. Botany - Scope and importance of botany. As with other life forms in biology, plant life can be studied from different perspectives, from the molecular, genetic and biochemical level through organel ...

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Botany - Scope and importance of botany

Botany - Feed the world

Botany - Understand fundamental life processes

Botany - Utilise medicine and materials

Botany - Understand environmental changes

Botany - History

Botany - Early botany before 1945

Botany - Modern botany since 1945

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flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Ylang-ylang

Ylang-ylang is the flower of the cananga tree. The tree attains and average height of 12 meters, grows in full or partial sun, and preferres the acidic soils of this native rainforest habitat. The leaves are long, smooth and glossy. The flower is greenish yellow or pink, resembling curly starfish, and yields a highly fragrant essential oil. The word derives from the Tagalog plant name ilang-ilang, which means "flower of flowers" and all ...

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Nectar

Nectar may mean: Nectar source — in botany, the sugar-rich liquid produced by the flowers of plants in order to attract pollinating animals. It is also the principal raw ingredient of honey. The nectary is the gland that secretes nectar. It is usually located at the base of the flower, forcing pollinators to brush against the flower's reproductive structures to reach it. It is not a modified stamen. Nectar that is produced outside the flower is generally produced to attract predatory insects. They will eat ...

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flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Petal

A petal is one member or part of the corolla of a flower. It is the inner part of the perianth that comprises the sterile parts of a flower and consists of inner and outer tepals. These tepals are usually differentiated into petals and sepals. The term "tepal" is usually applied when the petals and sepals are similar in shape and color. In a "typical" flower the petals are showy and colored and surround the reproductive parts. The number of petals in a flower (see merosity) is indicative of the plant's cla ...

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flowering plant: Encyclopedia - White garden

A White Garden is a feature garden comprising plants that produce white flowers and spathes, and plants with a white or silvery cast to their foliage. The term is something of a misnomer, as most of the plants in the garden will be green for most of the year. Category: Gardening ...

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Bud sport

A bud sport is a part of a plant or tree, for example, a leaf, shoot or flower, which due to a genetic mutation clearly differs from the rest of the plant, and which can also be grafted to grow new plants which retain this genetic difference as a new cultivar. An example of a bud sport is the nectarine, which is thought to have developed from a bud sport from a peach. Bud sports can also happen to garden plants, where for example a pink flower can appear on a genetically white-flowered plant. ...

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Annuals are often used in gardens to provide splashes of color, as they tend to produce more flowers than perennials. Some perennials and biennials are grown in gardens as annuals for convenience, particularly if they are not considered hardy for the local climate. Also, many food plants are, or are gro ...

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Windowbox

A windowbox is a box for growing plants. These boxes are placed in a window, usually on the outside of the window. This allows plants and their flowers to be readily seen by those inside of the house, as well as providing chefs with an easily accessed miniature kitchen garden, should the windowbox be placed outside a kitchen window. Category: Gardening Other related archivesGardening, box, chefs, flowers, plants, window

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Hop plant

Humulus lupulus L. Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. Humulus yunnanensis Hu The hop (Humulus) is a small genus of flowering plants, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The female flowers, commonly called hops, are used as flavouring and stabilisers during beer brewing. Although frequently referred to as the hop vine, it is technically a bine; unlike vines, which use tendrils, suckers, and other appendages for attaching themselves, bines have stout stems w ...

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Hop plant - Species

Hop plant - Cultivation

Hop plant - History

Hop plant - Propagation and pests

Hop plant - Harvest

Hop plant - Uses

Hop plant - Beer

Hop plant - Medicinal use

Hop plant - Fibre

Hop plant - Other uses

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Flax

Common flax (also known as linseed) is a member of the Linaceae family, which includes about 150 plant species widely distributed around the world. Some of them are grown in domestic flower beds, as flax is one of the few truly blue flowers. (Most "blue" flowers are really a shade of purple.) Under the dwindling Cronquist system of classifying the flowering plants, flax and related plants were placed in an order Linales. Modern classifications place them in the order Malpighiales. Flax is a Natural Fiber that belo ...

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Flax - Usage of Flax

Flax - Cultivating flax

Flax - Dressing flax

Flax - Trivia

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flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Abscission

Abscission (from ab- away from, and scission cutting or severing) is the shedding of a body part. It most commonly refers to the process by which a plant intentionally drops one or more of its parts, such as a leaf, fruit, flower or seed, though the term is also used to describe the shedding of a claw by an animal. A plant will abscise a part either to discard a member that is no longer necessary, such as a leaf during autumn, or a flower following fe ...

flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Saffron

Saffron is a spice derived from the flower of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), a species of crocus in the family Iridaceae. The flower's three stigmas (the distal ends of the plant's carpels, or female reproductive organs) and parts of its style (a stalk connecting the stigmas to the rest of the plant) are often dried and used in cooking as a seasoning and colouring agent. Saffron, which has for decades been the world's most expensive spice by weight,[1]^Including:

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Saffron - Cultivation

Saffron - Chemistry

Saffron - History

Saffron - Greco-Roman

Saffron - Asian

Saffron - Post-Classical European

Saffron - Usage

Saffron - Culinary

Saffron - Medicinal

Saffron - Colouring and perfumery

Saffron - Modern trade

Saffron - Cultivars

Saffron - Grading

Saffron - Notes

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flowering plant: Encyclopedia - Aster flower

Many, see text. The genus Aster includes some 600 species of widely distributed flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Aster comes from Greek word for "star", and refers to the shape of the flower head. Many of the species are popular garden plants because of their showy flower heads. The flowers of the Sea Aster (A. tripolium) are eaten by the larva of the Wormwood Pug moth. The larvae of other Lepidoptera including Flame Shoulder and Hummingbird Hawk-moth sometimes eat the foliage of asters. The leaf- ...

flowering plant: Encyclopedia II - Plant sexuality - Morphological mechanisms

Plant sexuality - Flower morphology. A species, such as the ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.), demonstrates the possible range of variation in morphology and functionality exhibited by flowers with respect to gender. Flowers of the ash are wind-pollinated and lack petals and sepals. Structurally, the flowers may be either male, female, or hermaphrodite, the latter consisting of two anthers and an ovary ('c' below). A male flower can be morphologically male ('a' below) or a hermaphrodite flower with anthers and a ...

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