Identifying Hardwoods Growing on Pine SitesBrown, Clair A. (Clair Alan)
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Identifying Hardwoods Growing on Pine Sites
Brown, Clair A. (Clair Alan)
Hardwoods -- Southern States -- Identification
Acuminate. Gradually tapering to a pointed apex.
Acute. Having the shape of an acute angle.
Aggregate. A cluster of ripened ovaries traceable to separate pistils
of the same flower and inserted on a common receptacle.
Anther. The pollen-bearing portion of the stamen.
Anthesis. Time of flowering.
Apetalous. Without petals.
Apex. The tip of leaf, twig, or other plant part.
Apical. Pertaining to apex.
Ascending. Growing obliquely or indirectly upward from point of
attachment.
Axil. Upper angle between a leaf or other plant part and the stem to
which it is attached.
Bisexual. Having both sex organs on the same plant; a hermaphrodite.
Blade. The flat expanded portion of a leaf or parts of a compound
leaf.
Catkin. A flexible, usually pendulous, scaly spike bearing unisexual
flowers.
Ciliate. Having a margin fringed with hair.
Compound Leaf. A leaf with two or more separate leaflets.
Cordate. Heart-shaped with the point at the terminal end.
Crenate. Having a margin with rounded to blunt teeth.
Cuneate. Wedge-shaped.
Deciduous. Not persistent; said of leaves falling in autumn or of
floral parts falling after anthesis.
Dehiscent. Opening by bursting or splitting.
Dentate. A margin with sharp teeth pointing outward.
Dimorphous. Occurring in two forms.
Dioecious. Unisexual, with staminate and pistillate flowers on
separate plants.
Drupe. A simple one-seeded fleshy fruit, the outer wall fleshy, the
inner wall bony.
Entire. Margins without teeth or lobes.
Evergreen. Having green leaves throughout the year.
Falcate. Sickle- or scythe-shaped.
Follicle. A dry, single-carpel fruit, opening along one side for seed
dispersal.
Fluted. Regularly marked by alternating ridges and grooves.
Fruit. The seed-bearing product of a plant.
Glabrous. Smooth, devoid of hair or surface glands.
Glandular. Furnished with glands, or glandlike.
Glaucous. Covered with a white waxy or powdery bloom.
Globose. Spherical, globular.
Husk. Fleshy covering of nut in hickories.
Imbricate. Overlapping.
Leaflet. A single division of a compound leaf.
Membranous. Thin, more or less flexible, translucent.
Midrib. The central rib or central vein of a leaf or similar
structure.
Monoecious. Having unisexual flowers, with both sexes borne on the
same plant.
Nut. A hard-shelled, indehiscent, usually one-celled, one-seeded
fruit.
Oblique. Slanted; of unequal-sided or non-symmetrical leaves or leaf
bases.
Obovate. Inverted ovate.
Obpyriform. Inverted pear-shaped.
Obtuse. Blunt.
Odd Pinnate. Pinnately compound with a terminal leaflet.
Ovate. Having the lengthwise outline of an egg, broadest at the base.
Ovoid. Egg-shaped in 3-dimensions.
Ovule. An embryonic seed in the ovary of a flower.
Palmate.
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