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

CACTUS ART
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F

F1  hybrid [ Genetics ]

F2 hybrid [ Genetics ]

-facing [ Suffix ]

Factor [ Biology - Climatology ]

False berry [ Botany ]

False fruit [ Botany ]

Family (fam.) [ Taxonomy ]

Fan-shaped (fanned) [ Botany ]

Fasciculate [ Botany ]

Fast growing [ Botany - Horticulture ]

Fasciation [ Botany ]

Fastigiated [ Botany ]

Fatal [ Biology ]

Father [ Biology ]

Fauna [ Botany ]

Feathery [ Botany ]

Feature [ Morphology - Habit of growth]

Fecundation - Fecund [ Botany ]

Feeding  [ Botany - Biology]

Feeder root  [ Botany]

Felt - felty [ Botany ]

Female [ Biology ]

Female flower [ Botany ]

Female plant [ Botany ]

Fenestrate [ Botany ]

Fertility - Fertilization [ Botany - biology ]

Fertility of soil [ Agronomy - Horticulture ]

Fertilization [ Agronomy - Horticulture ]

Fertilizer [ Agronomy - Horticulture ]

Fibonacci sequence [ Botany - Mathematics ]

Fibre - Fibrous [ Botany ]

Fibre cell [ Botany ]

Fibrous root [ Botany ]

Field number [ Taxonomy ]

Filament [ Botany ]

Filiform [ Botany ]

Fire [ Ecology ]

First description [ Taxonomy ]

Flagellum - Flagella [ Biology ]

Flat-shaped (Flattened) [ Botany ]

Flavonoid [ Botany - Biochemistry]

Fleshy [ Botany ]

Fleshy fruit [ Botany ]

Flexibility - Flexible [ Botany ]

Flooding [ Ecology - Agronomy ]

Flora [ Ecology - Botany ]

Floral formula [ Botany ]

Floral remnant [ Botany ]

Floral tube ( or cup) [ Botany ]

Floret [ Botany ]

Floriferous [ Botany ]

Flower [ Botany ]

Flower bud [ Botany ]

Flower stalk [ Botany ]

Flowering [ Botany ]

Flowering desert [ Ecology ]

Flowering phenology [ Botany ]

Flowering plants [ Botany - Taxonomy ]

Fluid [ Biology - Chemistry - Agronomy ]

Fly [ Entomology ]

Fly pollination[ Botany ]

Fly seeds [ Botany ]

Foetid [ Botany ]

Fog [  Ecology - Meteorology ]

Foliage [ Botany ]

Follicle - Follicular [ Botany ]

Food [ Botany ]

Forb [ Botany ]

Forest [ Botany ]

Form- [ Prefix ]

Forma (Form abbreviation f.)  [ Taxonomy ]

Forma mostruosa [ Botany ]

Fossil [ Biology ]

Fouqueriaceae [ Botany ]

Freak [ Botany - Horticulture ]

-free [ Suffix ]

Freeze [ Biology - Horticulture - Physics ]

Freezing point [ Physics ]

Fresh [ Botany ]

Fresh weight [ Botany - Biology ]

Frond [ Botany ]

Frost [ Meteorology ]

Frost date [ Meteorology - Horticulture]

Frost tolerance [ Ecology  ]

Frosted [ Botany ]

Fruit [ Botany ]

Fruit wall [ Botany ]

Fruiting - Fructification [ Botany ]

Fruitless [ Botany ]

Fruitlet [ Botany ]

Full full shadow [ Ecology - Horticulture ]

Full sun (exposure) [ Ecology - Horticulture ]

Function [  Biology - Physiology ]

Fungicide [ Phytopathology - Horticulture ]

Fungus [ Botany ]

Funiculus - Funicle [ Botany ]

Funnel-shaped - Funnelform [ Botany ]

Fusarium - Fusariosis [ Phytopathology ]

Fusiform [ Botany ]

Fusiform root [ Botany ]

Fusiform leaf [ Botany ]

Fusion [ Botany - Biology - Genetics ]

 
 

 


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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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