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Annual  [ Botany ] Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names
     
  Lasting for only one year. Referring to plant life cycle or to the life of single organs (e.g. shoots, leaves or roots) that last only one year.  
     
Annual plants  [ Botany ]
     
  The plants  whose life cycle usually lasts for only one year.  
     
Their life cycle begins with the germination of the seed. The plant then blooms, producing the next generation of seed, after which the parent plant dies.

Compare ephemeral; biennial; perennial
     
 


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Holdfast roots  [ Botany  ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

 
     
  Some species of climbing plants develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place.  
     
Climbing plants, like the poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), and trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans),  develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place. Usually the Holdfast roots die at the end of the first season, but in some species they are perennial. In the tropics some of the large climbing plants have hold-fast roots by which they attach themselves, and long, cord-like roots that extend downward through the air and may lengthen and branch for several years until they strike the soil and become absorbent roots.

Major references and further lectures:
1) E. N. Transeau “General Botany” Discovery Publishing House, 1994
   

 

 

 

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