A stem is one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant, the other being the root. It supports leaves, flowers and fruits, transports water and...

Plant stem cells are innately undifferentiated cells located in the meristems of plants. Plant stem cells serve as the origin of plant vitality, as they...

Look up Stem or stem in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stem or STEM most commonly refers to: Plant stem, a structural axis of a vascular plant Science...

Edible plant stems are a part of plants eaten by humans. Most plants are made up of stems, roots, leaves, flowers, and produce fruits containing seeds...

distances between nodes on the plant stem. See also radical, where leaves arise apparently without stems. Acid plant – plants with acid saps, normally due...

Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly...

and/or sugars. Parasitic plants are classified depending on the location where the parasitic plant latches onto the host (root or stem), the amount of nutrients...

thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing, or trailing, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles....

leaves on a plant stem. Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature. The basic arrangements of leaves on a stem are opposite...

dendrology, a rhizome (/ˈraɪzoʊm/ RY-zome) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called...

stolons are plant stems which grow at the soil surface or just below ground that form adventitious roots at the nodes, and new plants from the buds...

In botany, a plant shoot consists of any plant stem together with its appendages like leaves, lateral buds, flowering stems, and flower buds. The new growth...

and root tubers, as well as non-roots such as bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and stem tubers. Root vegetables are generally storage organs, enlarged to store energy...

plant has slightly twisted, gray-green leaves which grow to around 23 cm (9 in). Its fleshy stem distinguishes it from bamboo. Over time, the plant's...

stem, leaf or petiole with a thread-like shape used by climbing plants for support and attachment, as well as cellular invasion by parasitic plants such...

green or blue-green, narrow, strap-shaped leaves arise from the bulb. The plant stem usually bears a solitary flower, but occasionally a cluster of flowers...

flower buds from side, showing epicalyces at bud (calyx) bases and velvety plant stem (England) Unopened flower buds from above, showing tips of epicalyces...

bulbotuber is a short, vertical, swollen, underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ that some plants use to survive winter or other adverse conditions...

A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation. A piece of the stem or root of the source plant...

A woody plant is a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue and thus has a hard stem. In cold climates, woody plants further survive winter or...

some cacti. Many succulent plants in both the Old and New World – such as some Euphorbiaceae (euphorbias) – are also spiny stem succulents and because of...

the plants, such as leaves, stems, and roots to produce new plants or through growth from specialized vegetative plant parts. While many plants reproduce...

meters (15 to 50 feet) in height or length, the plant stem produces tendrils to help it climb adjacent plants and structures or extend along the ground. Most...

botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence...

type of enlarged structure that plants use as storage organs for nutrients, derived from stems or roots. Tubers help plants perennate (survive winter or...

Aerial stem modifications are modifications to the aerial stems, vegetative buds and floral buds of plants growing in different conditions and which perform...

Partial cloning Plant stem cell Stem cell controversy Stem cell marker Stem cell laws and policy in Iran Atala A, Lanza R (2012). Handbook of Stem Cells. Academic...

produced from a stem rather than from the more typical axil of a leaf. Adventitious roots may develop from nodes of prostrate stems of some plant species, or...

a houseplant worldwide. Much of its popularity stems from the low levels of care needed; the jade plant requires little water and can survive in most indoor...

caudex (pl.: caudices) of a plant is a stem, but the term is also used to mean a rootstock and particularly a basal stem structure from which new growth...