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Parts of the tree Flashcards

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Abortive [fruit]

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Not developed completely

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Alternate [arrangement of leaves or buds]

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Not opposite on the sides of twig

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Appressed

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Pressed close or lying flat against something

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Awl-shaped [leaf]

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Narrow and tapering to a sharp point

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Axillary

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Growing from the Axil. The angle between the upper side of a leaf or stem and the supporting stem or branch.

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Basal disc [fruit]

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A plate-like structure on the base of a fruit.

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Bloom

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A whitish covering; usually on new shoot growth or fruit.

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Bole

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The main stem of a tree; usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber or other wood products.

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Bract

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A leaf-like structure which is attached to a flower, a fruit or to its stalk.

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Branchlet

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Shoot growth of the latest growing season

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Broadleafed

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Having relatively broad rather than needle-like or scale-like leaves.

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Capsule [fruit]

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A dry fruit enclosing more than one seed and splitting freely at maturity.

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Bur [fruit]

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A prickly or spiny husk enclosing the seed

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Catkin

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A compact, cylindrical cluster of flowers of the same sex

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Chambered [pith]

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With hollow cavities separated by discs or plates

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Compound [leaf]

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A leaf composed of smaller leaf units or leaflets

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Conical

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Wide at the base and gradually tapering to a point; circular in cross section

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Conifer

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Cone-bearing trees; the “evergreens”

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Cordate [leaf]

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Heart-shaped at the petiole end or base

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Corymb

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A flat-topped floral cluster with outer flowers opening first

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Cup [fruit]

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The scaled, concave basal portion of oak fruit

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Cyme

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A flattened flowering structure, center flowers opening first

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Deciduous [leaves]

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All leaves drop in the autumn; not evergreen

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Diaphragmed [pith]

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Solid but divided into sections by firmer discs

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Drupe [fruit]

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Fleshy outside, hard and stone-like inside

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Ellipsoid

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Tapers equally at both ends; more than twice as long as broad

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Elliptical

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Like am ellipse; flat and tapering equally at both ends

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Entire [leaf]

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Margin of leaf without teeth, lobes, or divisions

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Fascicle [leaf]

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A cluster of conifer leaves

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Fluted [stem]

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With alternating, rounded depressions and ridges

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31
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Fruit

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The seed-bearing part of a tree

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32
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Glabrous

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Smooth without hairs

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33
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Glands

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Generally raised structures at the tips of hairs, or on a leaf, petiole, or twig

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Globose

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Spherical or globe-shaped

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Habitat

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The place where a plan usually grows, e.g. rocky, moist, well-drained, etc…

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36
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Hardwood

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Term used to describe all broad-leaved trees. These tree species are typically deciduous, retaining their leaves only one growing season. Despite the term, some “hardwoods”, such as the aspens, have wood that is relatively soft.

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Head

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A compact aggregate of flowers or fruit on a common stalk

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Invasive

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Not native to and tending to spread widely in a habitat or environment, sometimes displacing native species

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Husk [fruit]

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The somewhat leathery, outer covering of a fruit sometimes capable of splitting along well-defined lines

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Lance-shaped

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Long and tapering; several times longer than broad; broadest at the base

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Leaf

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Stalk (petiole) and blade of hardwoods; needles and scales of conifers

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Leaflets

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Smaller leaf units which together form a compound leaf

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Lenticel [bark]

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Corky, raised pores on woody parts with openings for air-gas exchange

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Linear [leaf]

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Much longer than broad with parallel margins

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Lobed [leaf]

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With large, rounded or pointed projections along the leaf margin. Projection formed by indentations of the leaf margin

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Margin [leaf]

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The edge, perimeter, or portion forming the outline

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Midrib [leaf]

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The large central vein

46
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Oblong

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Longer than wide with nearly parallel sides

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Obovate

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Egg-shaped in outline; broadest above the middle

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Opposite [arrangement of leaves or buds]

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Directly across from one another on a common axis or twig

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Oval

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Somewhat elliptical; less than twice as long as broad

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Ovate

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Egg-shaped in outline; broadest below the middle

51
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Palmate [leaf or veins]

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Compound, with leaflets originating at the same point on a common stalk. Veins originating at a common point at the base of leaf blade

52
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Panicle

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A loosely branched, pyramidal cluster of flowers

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Pendulous

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Drooping or hanging downward

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Petiole [leaf]

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The stalk that supports the leaf blade

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Pinnate [leaf or vein]

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Compound, with leaflets along a common rachis or stalk. Veins originating along a common mid-vein

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Pistillate

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Containing female portions of flowers, or the pistils

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Pith

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The central, soft part of the stem

58
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Prickle

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A small spine-like growth

59
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Pseudo-terminal [bud]

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When the bud on the end of a twig has a leaf scar located directly below

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Pubescent

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Covered with hairs

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Raceme

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Numerous stalked flowers or fruit along a common axis

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Ranked [leaves]

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Arranged in rows or files

63
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Samara

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A winged fruit, e.g. ash, maple

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Scales [bud]

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Small, modified leaves on the outer surface of the buds

65
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Scales [cone]

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The basic structures that enclose the seeds

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Scale-like [leaf]

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Small, generally overlapping, triangular shaped leaves of some conifers

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Seed

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That part of the fruit capable of germinating and producing a new plant

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Serrate [leaf]

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Margins with a saw tooth outline. Doubly serrate: with small teeth on the larger teeth

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Sessile

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Attached directly by the base without an intervening stalk

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Shrub

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A woody, many-stemmed plant, usually under 15 feet in height at maturity, which branches from it’s base

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Simple [leaf]

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A single leaf composed or a single blade. Not compound

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Smooth

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Without hairs, glands, or any roughness

73
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Softwood

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Term used to describe all needle-leaved trees. These species are typically evergreen, retaining their leaves though two or more growing seasons. Larches, including tamarack, are exceptions, being deciduous “softwoods”

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Solid [pith]

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Without cavities or sections separated by discs

75
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Spike

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A flower stalk

76
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Staminate

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Containing male portions of flowers, or the stamens

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Spinescent

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Having a spine or spines; or terminating in a spine

78
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Spur

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A short, extremely slow-growing, woody twig projection

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Stipule

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A tiny, leafy, sometimes spiny projection arising at the base or a petiole

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Stomate (Plural is stomata)

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Small pore on a leaf used for gas exchange

81
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Stone

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The “bony” or stony pit of drupes

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Style

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The usually slender part of a pistil, situated between the ovary and the stigma

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Toothed [leaf]

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With moderate projections along the margin

84
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Tree

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A woody plant, generally single-stemmed, that reaches a height of more than 15 feet at maturity and has a diameter of 3 inches or more measured at 4.5 feet above ground.

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Umbel

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A group of flowers or fruit whose stalks have a common point of attachment

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Unequal [leaf base]

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Base parts of blade on either side of midrib are uneven

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Valve-like [bud scales]

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Meet at their margins and do not overlap

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Wavy [leaf margin]

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Undulating but smooth; not toothed now lobed

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Whorl [leaves or branches]

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More than two originating at the same level on a common axis.

Dendrology (5 decks)

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