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Certain mutations occur only in a certain portion of the growing point, so only some or part of the leaves show the mutation.  This is called:

The leaves of many types of palms have a natural folding that looks pleated, which turns out to add strength to those leaves during strong storms. Which term is applicable to that folding:

Warm wet air at the equator rises, gets cooler, is less able to hold moisture, and precipitation occurs.

which flower type has radial symmetry:

When two authorities are cited after the specific epithet, one in parentheses before the second, it means the second one is giving the first authority (in parentheses) credit.

A leaf tip that is curled into a small spiral and can act like a tendril is called:

If you are plant blind, you don’t notice much about the plants around you.

The Boreal forests are located at 30 degrees N and S latitudes

The stem of a cycad is often referred to as a caudex.

A leaf with a shiny surface, completely lacking any bluish wax deposits, hairs or other trichomes, could be called