Modified Stems
This stem is a short, flattened, and has fleshy leaves attached to it
What is a bulb?
This part of a stem moves water and minerals
What is the xylem?
This part of a stem is the area from leaves, branches, and aerial roots grow from the stem.
What is a node?
This stem clings to or wraps around other objects
What is a climbing stem?
This is the part of the plant that makes food.
What is the leaf?
This modified stem is a rhizome with a tip that is swollen with stored food.
This part of the stem moves food down to the roots.
This part of a stem is the primary growth at the tip of the stem.
What is the apical bud?
This stem have a low surface to volume ratio and store large amounts of water.
What is a succulent?
This is the broad part of the leaf.
What is the blade?
This thick underground stem lies horizontally.
What is a rhizome?
This is a layer of meristemic tissue that separates the xylem and phloem.
What is the vascular cambium?
The space on the stem between the nodes
What is the internode?
A spherical structure, much like a bulb.
What is a corm?
This is the primary root that grows down in the soil.
This stem is a flattened modified stem that resembles a leaf
What is a cladophyll?
The xylem and phloem are arranged in bundles in this type of plant.
What is a monocot?
A type of small area that grows leaves in the stem
What is the auxiliary bud?
A tulip has this type of modified stem.
This is the part of the flower that attracts insects.
What is the petal?
This modified stem is a horizontal stem that lies above the ground.
What is a stolon?
The vascular system forms rings inside this type of plant.
What is a dicot?
stems including all appendages, leaves, lateral, buds, and flower plants
What is a shoot?
A strawberry is this type of modified stem.
What is a stolon?
This is the process of a plant making food.
What is photosynthesis?