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Marginate   [ Botany ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

Synonym: Marginated, Bordered
Noun:
Margination  
     
  Having a well-defined border or margin of distinctive appearance, colour, pattern or structure.  
     
[From Latin “marginates” p.p. of “marginare” = to margin.]


A “marginate” structure is recognizable by a distinctive edge clearly differently than its face as a a ridge or groove, an edge of distinctive colour or pattern or a fringed, frilled or closely cut character.

Left: A nice cultivar of   Sanseveria with marginate leaf.
 
     
To marginate   [ Transitive verb ]
Synonym: To border
(
past and past participle Marginated, present participle Marginating, 3rd person present singular Marginates) 
     
  To add a well-defined margin to something, To provide with or be a margin to a structure.  
     

 


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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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