Areas of Horticulture
This is the production of ornamental plants for use in indoor and outdoor environments,
What is environmental horticulture?
These are plants that complete their life cycle in one year
What are annuals?
These are the 3 functions of roots.
What is nutrient absorption, anchorage, and sugar storage?
This type of stem is soft and fleshy, only growing one main stem.
What is herbaceous?
These are conspicuously colored to attract pollinators.
What is the petal?
This involves scientists working with a variety of plant types, including landscape plants, turfgrasses, and woody plants, as well as fruits and vegetables.
What is horticulture research?
These are plants that grow for multiple growing seasons and can be herbaceous or woody plants.
What are perennials?
These run throughout the leaf blade all the way to the edge.
What is a vein?
This is a layer of cells between the xylem and phloem.
What is the vascular cambium?
This is the entire male part of the flower.
What is the stamen?
The planting, harvesting, storing, processing, and marketing of fruit and nut crops.
What is pomology?
These are herbaceous plants that require two growing seasons to complete their life cycle.
What is a biennial?
This type of root is found in dicots
What is a Taproot?
Both herbaceous and woody stems have these 2 types of tissue.
What is the xylem and phloem?
This part of the pistil transport pollen from the stigma to the ovary.
What is the style?
This attempts to develop plant crops that produce nutritious foods, hardy plant varieties, and plant species that appeal to consumers.
What is plant breeding?
This is a period of non-growth.
What is dormancy?
In order to propagate a plant, you must pinch from this part of the leaf.
What is the node?
This stem tissue creates the bark on woody plants.
What is the phloem?
The four main parts to the flower are...
What is the petal, sepal, stamen, and pistil?
This is when we adapt plant species to produce fruits, vegetables, and flowers that stay fresh once harvested, are safe for humans to eat, and do not harbor disease.
What is plant physiology?
These are the 3 phases of plant life in order.
What is dormancy, vegetative, and reproductive?
What is moisture, air, or pH?
This is a type of stem with a large pith.
What is a cane?
Male and female flowers are on separate plants
What is a dioecious plant?