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  • Thumbnail for Succulent plant
    In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants with parts that are thickened, fleshy, and engorged, usually to retain water in arid...
    43 KB (3,383 words) - 23:35, 7 November 2024
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    They are epiphytes, and a few are lithophytes. A single, apical and succulent leaf grows on an elongated pseudobulb. The orchid yields a single white or...
    8 KB (468 words) - 16:33, 31 October 2024
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    translucent leaf window for photosynthesis at inner leaf surfaces (e.g. Fenestraria). Kranz leaf anatomy in plants which perform C4 carbon fixation Succulent leaves...
    113 KB (11,734 words) - 04:23, 26 October 2024
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    family Asphodelaceae.) Aloeae are mainly rosulated-leaf succulents, while the other genera are not succulent. The genera in Aloeae are centered in southern...
    13 KB (1,261 words) - 09:34, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aloe vera
    Aloe vera (/ˈæloʊ(i) vɛrə, vɪər-/) is a succulent plant species of the genus Aloe. It is widely distributed, and is considered an invasive species in...
    32 KB (3,109 words) - 12:29, 27 October 2024
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    interior surfaces of the leaf where photosynthesis can occur. The translucent structure may include epidermal tissue, and in some succulent plants it consists...
    6 KB (643 words) - 03:49, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vanilla planifolia
    floor. On the nodes opposite the root nodes it has a single flat bladed succulent leaf. When full grown the glossy, bright green leaves are 8–25 cm in length...
    22 KB (2,447 words) - 16:28, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mesembryanthemum cordifolium
    Mesembryanthemum cordifolium, formerly known as Aptenia cordifolia, is a species of succulent plant in the iceplant family. It is a creeping plant that forms a carpet...
    10 KB (1,115 words) - 03:17, 26 August 2024
  • Portulacaceae, and Talinaceae. All three major kinds of succulent plant — stem succulents, leaf succulents, and caudiciform plants — are represented within this...
    2 KB (115 words) - 16:40, 13 June 2024
  • considered halophytes; however, halophytes are not necessarily xerophytes. The succulent xerophyte Zygophyllum xanthoxylum, for example, has specialised protein...
    39 KB (4,561 words) - 16:46, 30 October 2024
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    Colombian Andes bears the largest leaf buds of any plant; up to 60 cm (2 ft) long and 40 cm (16 in) thick. The succulent leaf stalks are up to 2.7 m (8 ft...
    27 KB (2,357 words) - 23:01, 29 July 2024
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    Phyllotaxis (redirect from Leaf arrangement)
    In botany, phyllotaxis (from Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon) 'leaf' and τάξις (táxis) 'arrangement') or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant...
    17 KB (1,742 words) - 13:27, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Glossary of leaf morphology
    terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (that is, the leaf blade or 'lamina' is undivided)...
    27 KB (857 words) - 09:39, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crassula ovata
    commonly known as jade plant, lucky plant, money plant or money tree, is a succulent plant with small pink or white flowers that is native to the KwaZulu-Natal...
    12 KB (1,513 words) - 17:01, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kalanchoe pinnata
    as cathedral bells, air plant, life plant, miracle leaf, Goethe plant, and love bush, is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. It is a popular houseplant...
    17 KB (1,740 words) - 16:32, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Curio rowleyanus
    flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae. It is a creeping, perennial, succulent vine native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. In its natural environment...
    7 KB (812 words) - 21:21, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peperomia
    rock crevices), and many are xerophytes (drought-tolerant, with thick succulent structures to save water) or possess underground tubers (geophytes). Most...
    25 KB (2,275 words) - 12:18, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agave atrovirens
    occasionally reaching a weight of two long tons (2 metric tonnes). Each succulent leaf can be up to 14 feet 9 inches (4.50 meters) in length and weigh one...
    3 KB (374 words) - 04:23, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lithops
    Lithops is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae. Members of the genus are native to southern Africa. They avoid being eaten...
    23 KB (2,206 words) - 14:54, 14 November 2024
  • mucilaginous compounds. Some leaf succulents have leaves which are distributed along the stem in a similar fashion to non-succulent species (e.g. Crassula,...
    8 KB (947 words) - 08:02, 25 May 2024
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