Botany

botany

Bare trees describes woody plants that have lost their leaves, revealing twigs, branches, and trunk. In temperate climates, this seasonal state occurs in winter after leaf fall...

botany

No, apples are not drupes. In botanical classification, apples are pomes, a type of accessory fruit in which the fleshy edible part develops primarily from the floral receptacle...

botany

Are potatoes roots or stems? Botany clarifies that the potato is a tuber, which is a modified stem that grows underground, not a root. This distinction is important because root...

plants

California designated the golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) as its official state flower in 1903 through a legislative act driven by the Native Daughters of the Golden Wes...

botany

At first glance, cannabis can resemble several other plants, from common weeds to ornamental shrubs. Weed that looks like weed is often a case of mistaken identity driven by lea...

plants

Succulents are plants adapted to dry climates by storing water in fleshy leaves, stems, or roots, enabling them to survive long droughts. This water-storage trait is found acros...

games

Botany in Final Fantasy XIV is a gathering discipline that lets players collect plants, fungi, and related materials from nodes found across Eorzea. It supports key crafting cla...

Science & Nature

The xylem is a vascular tissue in vascular plants responsible primarily for the transport of water and dissolved minerals from roots to shoots, and for providing structural supp...

botany-dietary

In everyday cooking, olives are treated as a savory vegetable or condiment, but by botanical definition they are fruits. Specifically, an olive is the ripened ovary of the olive...

botany-nutrition

An apple is botanically a fruit, specifically a pome, because it develops from the flower’s ovary and contains seeds. In cooking and commerce, it is also treated as a fruit du...