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Fasciation. Fasciation (pronounced / ˌfæʃiˈeɪʃən /, from the Latin root meaning "band" or "stripe"), also known as cresting, is a relatively rare condition of abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem (growing tip), which normally is concentrated around a single point and produces approximately cylindrical tissue ...
Fascicle (botany) In botany, a fascicle is a bundle of leaves or flowers growing crowded together; alternatively the term might refer to the vascular tissues that supply such an organ with nutrients. [1] However, vascular tissues may occur in fascicles even when the organs they supply are not fascicled.
Syringa vulgaris is a large deciduous shrub or multi-stemmed small tree, growing to 6–7 m (20–23 ft) high. It produces secondary shoots from the base or roots, with stem diameters up to 20 cm (8 in), which in the course of decades may produce a small clonal thicket. [7] The bark is grey to grey-brown, smooth on young stems, longitudinally ...
The French Wikipedia ( French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1] It has 2,622,726 articles as of 12 July 2024, making it the fourth-largest Wikipedia overall, after the English ...
Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers ), and angiosperms ( flowering plants ). Scientific names for the group include Tracheophyta, [11] [4] : 251 Tracheobionta [12] and Equisetopsida sensu lato. Some early land plants (the rhyniophytes) had less developed vascular tissue; the term ...
The Plant List was a list of botanical names of species of plants created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden and launched in 2010. It was intended to be a comprehensive record of all known names of plant species over time, and was produced in response to Target 1 of the 2002–2010 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSP C), to produce "An online flora of ...
Cirsium vulgare, the spear thistle, bull thistle, or common thistle, is a species of the Asteraceae genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe (north to 66°N, locally 68°N), Western Asia (east to the Yenisei Valley), and northwestern Africa (Atlas Mountains).
This category has the following 38 subcategories, out of 38 total. Plant families (9 C, 10 P) Plant genera (10 C) Plant orders (8 C, 8 P) Plant subfamilies (2 C, 53 P) Plant taxa by rank (12 C) Plants by year of formal description (4 C)