Nouns denoting plants
- cambium
- a formative one-cell layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth
- eringo
- any plant of the genus Eryngium
- genus Blastocladia
- a genus of fungi of the family Blastodiaceae
- Polypodium aureum
- tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
- Talinum aurantiacum
- plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots
- Chenopodium glaucum
- annual European plant with spikes of greenish flowers and leaves that are white and hairy on the underside; common as a weed in North America
- Protea mellifera
- Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously
- genus Leptarrhena
- one species: leatherleaf saxifrage
- Capsicum annuum longum
- plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
- knotty pine
- pine lumber with many knots; used especially for paneling and furniture
- family Oxalidaceae
- a family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers
- Araucaria cunninghamii
- pine of Australia and New Guinea; yields a valuable light even-textured wood
- ray
- a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
- petiole
- the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf
- Derris elliptica
- woody vine having bright green leaves and racemes of rose-tinted white flowers; the swollen roots contain rotenone
- nakedwood
- any of several small to medium-sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood
- mallow
- any of various plants of the family Malvaceae
- Polypodium scouleri
- stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib
- genus Chorizema
- genus of Australian twining vines and small shrubs: flame peas
- Veronica officinalis
- common hairy European perennial with pale blue or lilac flowers in axillary racemes
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