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

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

The examples used in the landscaping module, Blue Spruce, Platycladus and Foxtail Palm, were all used to show how plants shouldn’t be chose that require large amounts of labor and materials to maintain.

The fruit of roses is an aggregate fruit composed of several achenes surrounded by a fleshy hypanthium.  What fruit type is this:

A hypanthium is a platform-like part of a flower that can be large enough to carry the petals and stamens above the rest of the flower and result in an inferior ovary

A papilionaceous flower is known by which set of features

The collective term for the sepals of a flower is the calyx.

The ICN sets the starting point for the priority of binomial nomenclature to Linnaeus’ work Species Plantarum, which was published in 1753.

Decurrent means different things in different places.  When referring to leaves, decurrent means the leaf is adnate to the stem.

The pollen cones of cycads have many sporangia, which dehisce and release the pollen.