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(no roots) The shoots of a groundcover look like this. Which term would you use to describe this growth habit:

A corymb can superficially resemble an umbel because their overall shape can be the same.

The most frequent and largest quantity of rain is experienced:

If you were to invent the aestival festival, when would it most likely be celebrated:

When you see the different types of succulents and their non-succulent relatives, you can see evidence of both divergent and convergent evolution, divergence from their non-succulent relatives, and convergence to non-related plants.

The apex of a leaf may turn inward instead of outward. Which term below is the most extreme of these inward-turning leaf apices:

A holdfast can be a disc or root.

The word “gymnosperm” breaks down into two words, “covered” and “seed.”

Cultivars can be vegetatively (asexually) or sexually propagated, as long as the features that make it special are preserved.

The cloves of garlic could be called bulbils, while Egyptian onions, with small bulbs on their flowering stalks, would be called bulblets.