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An antique spurge plant, Euphorbia antiquorum, sending out white rhizomes In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (/ ˈ r aɪ z oʊ m / RY-zohm) [note 1] is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
The Rhizophoraceae is a family of tropical or subtropical flowering plants. [2] It includes around 147 species distributed in 15 genera. [3] Under the family, there are three tribes, Rhizophoreae, Gynotrocheae, and Macarisieae. [3]
The cross-section of a barley root. Root morphology is divided into four zones: the root cap, the apical meristem, the elongation zone, and the hair. [5] The root cap of new roots helps the root penetrate the soil.
Local Khasis using the young, pliable aerial roots of a fig tree to create a new railing for a bridge near the village of Kongthong. Living root bridges are a kind of tree shaping in which rivers are spanned by architecture formed out of the roots of ficus plants.
Species name Family Vernacular name Other name Year found Aglaia ceramica: Meliaceae: Amorphophallus titanum: Araceae: Anaphalis javanica: Asteraceae: Aralia javanica
The water-plantains (Alismataceae) are a family of flowering plants, comprising 20 genera (17 extant and 3 fossil) and 119 species.The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the greatest number of species in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Proteales is an order of flowering plants consisting of three (or four) families. The Proteales have been recognized by almost all taxonomists. The representatives of the Proteales are very different from each other d
Adiantum lunulatum. Pteridaceae is a family of ferns in the order Polypodiales, [2] including some 1150 known species in ca 45 genera [3] (depending on taxonomic opinions), divided over five subfamilies. [4]