Whether you like to observe plants during your outdoor adventures or you have plants at home, you’ve probably noticed how diverse their leaves are. The long, strappy leaves of Dracaena look nothing like the divided leaves of Schefflera, and the large, fern-like leaves of a Jacaranda tree hardly resemble the tiny heart-shaped leaves of Ceropegia (string
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Plant leaves take on a wide variety of shapes, forms and colors, and some plants are even missing leaves completely (for example, saguaro cactus)! Why learn leaf morphology? Although there’s huge variation among different species, learning some basic leaf morphology is an important starting point for building further knowledge about plants. All of the terms
You’ve probably seen this distinctive plant in stores and garden centers during the Christmas season. What is it? Where did it come from? Let’s have a look! The first thing you’ll probably notice is the feature makes this such an attractive plant at Christmas: those large red flowers. But wait, is that what those are?
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Opuntia, commonly known as “prickly pear cactus”, is the most widespread genus of cactus (family Cactaceae) in North America. Although cacti are most typical of the arid southwestern climate of the Sonoran, Chihuahuan and Mojave deserts, Opuntia can be found across the United States and some freeze-tolerant species can even be found as far north
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Cellar spiders, sometimes called daddy long-legs spiders, are common across the world; you may already recognize them because of their conspicuous habit of creating and hanging from a loose web, what you might call a cobweb, in that neglected corner of your room. By far the most common type is the one pictured here, whose
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