Wool

Wool [ Botany ]
Adjective: Woolly

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

In botany wool is a filamentous or fibrous covering suggestive of the texture of true wool, a pubescence, or a clothing of soft hairs, growing on the surface of certain plants and also any thick mass of long woolly-like, matted or free hairs.

(For example: a woolly cephalium, the cover of wool on *Austrocylindropuntia malyana*

Wooly buds and fruits of Eriosyce napina ssp. lembckey var. duripulpa		The cover of wool on Austrocylindropuntia malyana

(See also: surface features, hair, trichomes, felt, lanate, tomentose, pubescence, villous, cephalium )

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