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It supports leaves, flowers and fruits, transports water and dissolved substances between the roots and the shoots in the xylem and phloem, engages in photosynthesis, stores nutrients, and produces new living tissue. [1] The stem can also be called the culm, halm, haulm, stalk, or thyrsus. The stem is normally divided into nodes and internodes: [2]
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The epidermis is the outermost cell layer of the primary plant body. In some older works the cells of the leaf epidermis have been regarded as specialized parenchyma cells, [1] but the established modern preference has long been to classify the epidermis as dermal tissue, [2] whereas parenchyma is classified as ground tissue. [3]
A Abelia Abeliophyllum (white forsythia) Abelmoschus (okra) Abies (fir) Abroma Abromeitiella (obsolete) Abronia (sand verbena) Abrus Abutilon Acacia (wattle) Acaena Acalypha Acanthaceae Acanthodium Acantholimon Acanthopale Acanthophoenix Acanthus Acca Acer (maple) Achariaceae Achillea (yarrow) Achimenantha (hybrid genus) Achimenes Acinos (calamint) Aciphylla Acmena Acoelorraphe (saw palm ...
A stipule is "intrapetiolar" if it is located in the angle that is between a stem and a petiole. In this case, the two stipules generally form together and appear to be one stipule. A stipule is "ochreate" if a single stipule appears to be a solid tube that goes all the way around the stem. A stipule is "foliaceous" if it is leaf-like.
Language of flowers – cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers; Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas
Stem (music), a part of a written musical note; Stem mixing and mastering, a method of mixing audio material; The Stems, an Australian garage punk band "Stem" (DJ Shadow song), 1996 "Stem" (Ringo Sheena song), 2003 "Stem", a song by Hayden from the 1995 album Everything I Long For "Stem", a song by Static-X from the 1999 album Wisconsin Death Trip
Yellow or white chrysanthemum flowers of the species C. morifolium are boiled to make a tea in some parts of East Asia. The resulting beverage is known simply as chrysanthemum tea (菊 花 茶, pinyin: júhuā chá, in Chinese). In Korea, a rice wine flavored with chrysanthemum flowers is called gukhwaju (국화주).