Types of stems
Basic Vocab terms
Advanced Vocab
Edible stems
100
an arching stem of a plant that roots at the tip to form a new plant, as in the bramble.
What is Stolon?
100
The tough protective outer sheath of the trunk, branches, and twigs of a tree or woody shrub.
What is bark?
100
A strand of conducting vessels in the stem or leaves of a plant, typically with phloem on the outside and xylem on the inside.
What are Vascular Bundles?
100
An edible stem that might appear to look like a tiny tree?
What is broccoli?
200
a rounded underground storage organ present in some plants, notably those of the lily family, consisting of a short stem surrounded by fleshy scale leaves or leaf bases, lying dormant over winter.
What is Bulb?
200
The dense inner part of a tree trunk, yielding the hardest timber.
What is Heartwood?
200
The vascular cambium is the main growth tissue in the stems and roots of many plants.
What is Vascular Cambium?
200
Something round and bumpy you might not think is a stem but certainly is.
What is a Potato?
300
underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and adventitious roots at intervals.
What is Rhizome?
300
the vascular tissue in plants that conducts sugars and other metabolic products downward from the leaves.
What is Phloem?
300
a flowering plant with an embryo that bears a single cotyledon (seed leaf). constitute the smaller of the two great divisions of flowering plants, and typically have elongated stalkless leaves with parallel veins (e.g. grasses, lilies, palms).
What is Monocotyledons?
300
A long green stalk that grows near bodies of water. Often used to make paper.
What is sugarcane?
400
a rounded underground storage organ present in plants such as crocuses, gladioli, and cyclamens, consisting of a swollen stem base covered with scale leaves.
What is corm?
400
the vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem.
What is Xylem
400
a flowering plant with an embryo that bears two cotyledons (seed leaves).constitute the larger of the two great divisions of flowering plants, and typically have broad, stalked leaves with netlike veins (e.g., daisies, hawthorns, oaks).
What is Dicotyledon?
400
A short green stalk normally served with carrots and dipped in ranch.
What is Celery?
500
a much thickened underground part of a stem or rhizome, e.g. in the potato, serving as a food reserve and bearing buds from which new plants arise. We often eat these stems.
What is Tuber?