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The plant morphologist goes further, and discovers that the spines of cactus also share the same basic structure and development as leaves in other plants, and therefore cactus spines are homologous to leaves as well. This aspect of plant morphology overlaps with the study of plant evolution and paleobotany.
The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (that is, the leaf blade or 'lamina' is undivided) or compound (that is, the leaf blade is divided into two or more leaflets). [1] The edge of the leaf may be regular or irregular, and may be smooth or have hair, bristles, or ...
How to Use Your Phone to Identify a Plant. It only takes two simple steps to use the iPhone Visual Lookups tool. Snap a photo of the plant you're trying to identify.
An app for smartphones (and a web version) was launched in 2013, [4] which allows to identify thousands of plant species from photographs taken by the user. It is available in several languages. As of 2019 it had been downloaded over 10 million times, in more than 180 countries worldwide. [1]
In forestry, especially in the tropics, identifying trees based on the flowers or leaves high up in the crown can be difficult, a method of identifying tree species in this case is called a 'slash', a shallow machete cut to the trunk to expose the colours of the different layers inside, and show the type of sap.
Leaf Base Shape: Semiamplexicaul – the leaf base wraps around the stem, but not completely. Leaf Blade Apex: Acuminate – narrowing to a point (a term used for other structures, too). Acute – with a sharp, rather abrupt ending-point. Acutifolius – with acute leaves. Attenuate – tapering gradually to a narrow end. Leaf Blade Margins:
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification is a book by Thomas J. Elpel published by HOPS Press, LLC. The book emphasizes family characteristics for plant identification . Related plants typically have similar floral features and often similar uses.
Plant.id is a machine learning-based plant identification API launched in 2018, [6] with the plant disease identification API, plant.health, released in April 2022. [4] The plant.id API is suitable for integration into other software, such as mobile apps [ 7 ] or urban trees from remote-sensing imagery.