From time to time, I will post up a list of useful terms. These aren't really necessary to know, but it always pays to expand your knowledge. Consider these term posts to be something extra on the side to help you become more familiar with the plant world. Kind of like dessert, but with less calories and more words. You'll no longer have to scratch your head and refer to "that one plant" as "that one plant."
- Tracheid: a type of water-conducting cell in the xylem which lacks perforations in the cell wall.
- Abscission: the normal separation of flowers, fruit, and leaves from plants.
- Allelopathy: suppression of growth of a plant by a toxin released from a nearby plant of the same or another species.
- Vascular: any of various plants, such as the ferns and seed-bearing plants, in which the phloem transports sugar and the xylem transports water and salts.
- Decurrent: extending down the stem below the place of insertion, as certain leaves.
- Deciduous: plants, including trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennials, that lose all of their leaves for part of the year.
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