Root Flashcards
Tap root
DT dicot taproot
Mustard
Turnip
Carrot
Fibrous root
FM fibrous monocots
Triticum aestivum
wheat
Adventitious root
Roots that rise from parts other than the radicle
Adventitious root
Baniya Banyan tree
Goes Grass
Mad Monstera
Sweet potato
Food storage
Tap root of carrot and turnip
Adventitious root of sweet potato
Hanging roots of banyan tree
Prop roots
Stilt roots
Maize
Sugarcane
Come out of the lower nodes of the stem
Pneumatophores
Rhizophora
Mangrooves
Swampy areas
help to get OXYGEN for respiration
Rhizome
underground stem
Ginger– Food storage
Turmeric – Food storage
Banana
Tuber
underground stem
Potato
Food storage
Corm
underground stem
Colocassia
amorphophallus ( zaminkand)
Food storage
Underground stems
Grass
Strawberry
Vegetative (read ncert line)
Stem tendrils
Develop from auxillary buds
Slender
spirally coiled
help to climb
Gourds (cucumber,pumpkin,watermelon)
Grapevines
Thorns
Developed from auxillary buds
Citrus
Bougainvillea
Phytoclade
Photosynthetic stem
Opuntia flattened
Euphorbia fleshy, cylindrical