Home | E-mail | Photo gallery | Mail Sale Catalogue | Grafting Guestbook | Dictionary |  Winter test | Links | Search

 
 
Spreading [ Botany - Habit of growth ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

     
  A spreading  habit is a vegetative features that describe a  plant  extending or stretching out over a wide area that forms an open clumps, not forming a tight groups of shoots.  
     
   
     
Spreading [ Botany - Biology  - Ecology ]
Synonym:  Diffusion,  Dissemination, Dispersal
     
  The process or result of distributing  over a wide expanse of space; diffusion or dispersal.  

Especially used in botany and ecology to indicate plant, seed or pollen dissemination or dispersal.

In ecology a diffuse distribution indicate plants widely spread or scattered over an area, not concentrated in a definite and delimited place.

To spread [ Transitive and intransitive verb ]   (past and past participle spread, present participle spreading, 3rd person present singular spreads)
Adjective: Spread, Spreadable
     
  To open, extend or diffuse something to its full area; causing something to extends or widely extents over a period of time, range, surface or direction.  
     
For example: A tree  that spreads its branches, insects spread seed or pollen , sooty mould spread over a leaf, to spread fertilizer in ones garden ground, Cactus are spread from northern to southern America etc...)
     

 

 

A Special Thanks to all Those Who help us to make this web site
with their photo, time, comments.

The photos in  this site are subject to copyright. Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of CACTUS ART nursery and the original photographer.

Home | E-mail | Photo gallery | Mail Sale Catalogue | Grafting Guestbook | Dictionary |  Winter test | Links | Search

1