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Drought  [ Meteorology - Ecology ]
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plural: Droughts)

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

     
  A drought is a long period of extremely dry weather, when there is not enough rain for the successful growing of plants or for the replenishment of water supplies. Aridity.  
     
Drought is brought about when there is a period with below average precipitation. This condition can arise, even in times of average precipitation, due to soil conditions (for example drought condition are more emphasized in a draining soil)
     

 


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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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