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Above-ground parts |
All parts of a plant growing above ground. |
Bulb |
A mass of overlapping membranous or fleshy leaves on a short stem base enclosing one or more buds that may develop under suitable conditions into new plants and constituting the resting stage of many plants, such as the onion. |
Fruit |
Ripened ovary of a seed-bearing plant. |
Leaf |
An above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. |
Pod |
A structure that contains the seeds or flowers of a plant (eg. seed pod, flower pod) |
Root |
That portion of the plant axis lacking nodes and leaves and usually found below the ground. |
Tuber |
A short, thick, usually but not always subterranean stem or branch bearing buds or "eyes" and serving as a storage organ, as in the potato. |
Peeled cloves |
Free of their papery skin. |
Rhizome |
A horizontal plant stem, growing beneath the surface, and usually covered with dormant buds, as in fresh ginger |
Inflorescence |
The mode of arrangement of the flowers on a plant; the flowering part of a plant; the coming into flower of a plant. |
Ear |
Fruit including the leaf, rachis, peduncle, pistillate flowers, and silks in the case of corn. |
Corm |
Underground stem, such as that of the taro, similar to a bulb but without the scales. A solid swollen part of a stem, usually subterranean, as the so-called "bulb" of Crocus and Gladiolus. |
Palm heart |
The edible, white, inner portion of the stem and growing bud of palm trees. |
Nut |
A hard shelled, woody-textured, one-celled fruit that does not split open (e.g. acorn, coconut, or macadamia nut). |
Gall |
A large swelling on plant tissues caused by the invasion of parasites, such as fungi or bacteria, following puncture by an insect. |
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