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Dictionary: BOTANICAL & TECHNICAL TERMINOLOGY
Glossary of terms beginning with
L

CACTUS ART
NURSERY

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of Cacti and Succulents.

 
 
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Label [ Horticulture ]

Lamina [ Botany ]

Lanceolate [ Botany ]

Landscape [ Botany ]

Landscape value [ Horticolture ]

Larva - Larval [ Biology ]

Lateral [ Botany ]

Lateral bud    [ Botany ]

Lateral meristem [ Botany ]

Lateral root [ Botany ]

Lateral proliferation [ Botany ]

Latex - Laticifer - Laticiferous [ Botany ]

Latin genders [ Used for writing the scientific names ]

Latin singular & plural [ Used for writing the scientific names]

Latitude [ Ecology ]

Layering [ Horticulture ]

Leaching [ Botany - Horticulture ]

Leaf [ Botany ]

Leaf apex (Leaf tip) [ Botany ]

Leaf base [ Botany ]

Leaf bud [ Botany ]

Leaf margin [ Botany ]

Leaf joint [ Botany ]

Leaf propagation (Leaf cutting) [ Horticulture ]

Leaf scar [ Botany ]

Leaf shape [ Botany ]

Leaf succulent [ Botany ]

Leaf surface [ Botany ]

Leaf trace [ Botany ]

Leaflet [ Botany ]

Leathery [ Botany ]

Lectotype [ Taxonomy ]

Legume [ Botany ]

Lenticel [ Botany ]

Lepidoptera (Lepidopteran) [ Entomology ]

Lesion [ Phytopathology ]

-less [ Suffix ]

Liana [ Botany ]

Life - Living [ Biology ]

Life cycle [ Botany ]

Life expectancy [ Biology ]

Life forms [ Biology - Ecology ]

Lifetime [ Biology - Botany ]

Light [ Physiology - Ecology - Climatology ]

Light frost [ Horticulture - Climatology ]

Lignin - Lignin [ Botany ]

Ligule [ Botany ]

-like [ Suffix ]

Limestone [ Geology ]

Line [ Biology - Genetics ]

Line cristation  [ Botany - Horticulture]

Lineage [ Biology - Genetics ]

Linear meristem [ Botany ]

Linnaean classification [ Taxonomy ]

Lipid [ Biology - Phytochemistry ]

Liquid [ Physics ]

Lithophyte - lithophytic [ Botany ]

Living [ Botany ]

Living being (Organism, thing, creatures) [ Biology ]

Living rock  [ Horticulture ]

Lobate - Lobed  [ Botany ]

Lobe  [ Botany ]

Lobule (Lobelet)  [ Botany ]

Locality  [ Taxonomy ]

Locule (Loculus) [ Botany ]

Locus (Plural: Loci) [ Genetics ]

Longevity [ Biology ]

Long day plants [ Botany - Horticulture ]

Long-lived [ Botany ]

Longitudinal axes [ Botany - Biology ]

Longitudinal section [ Botany - Biology ]

Low-growing [ Botany - Horticulture ]

Lower plants [ Botany ]

Lumpers & splitters [ Taxonomy ]

Lunate [ Botany ]

 
 

 


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Holdfast roots  [ Botany  ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

 
     
  Some species of climbing plants develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place.  
     
Climbing plants, like the poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), and trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans),  develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place. Usually the Holdfast roots die at the end of the first season, but in some species they are perennial. In the tropics some of the large climbing plants have hold-fast roots by which they attach themselves, and long, cord-like roots that extend downward through the air and may lengthen and branch for several years until they strike the soil and become absorbent roots.

Major references and further lectures:
1) E. N. Transeau “General Botany” Discovery Publishing House, 1994
     

 

 

 

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