Begonia Registration Handbook - American Begonia Society

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stem - a stalk which supports leaves, flowers or fruit sterile - lacking functional sex organs or infertile stigma - the part of the pistil that receives the pollen stipule - appendage at the base of the petiole stomata - pores in the leaf formed by two guard cells strigose - with harsh, stiff, straight short hairs style - stalk-like part between stigma and ovary subentire - having very slight marginal incisions subspecies - rank of a taxon between species and variety subulate - awl-shaped succulent - juicy; fleshy; soft and thickened suffrutescent stems - stems which are woody at the base sulcate - with longitudinal grooves synonym - alternate or previous name taxonomy - the science of identification, nomenclature, and classification of plants tepals – petal like structures of begonia flowers (begonias don’t have petals or sepals) terrarium - a container with enclosed atmosphere thecae - pollen sacs of anther; anther cells thick stemmed - type of begonia with overly thick upright stems thickset - short jointed stem thickly leaved tomentose - thickly covered with matted wool-like hairs trullate - angular ovate truncate - nearly straight across the base of the leaf tuber - greatly thickened short fleshy portion of underground stem page 41
umbel - pedicels arising from the same point undulate - wavy edge variety (var.) - a subdivision of a species veinlets - small veins velutinous - velvety, covered with soft fine hairs venation - the pattern of veins in the leaf blade verrucose - having a wart-like surface villous - having moderately long soft hairs not necessarily straight which are somewhat shaggy page 42
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Page 3 and 4: This handbook contains all the info
Page 5 and 6: Flowers: Color- tepals_____________
Page 7 and 8: Cultivar Development Section 1 2 3
Page 9 and 10: Leaves: Color______________________
Page 11 and 12: 6 Main Veins For this description y
Page 13 and 14: 6 Amount of clusters Circle which t
Page 15 and 16: page 16 Elements of a leaf
Page 17 and 18: Serrate: A serrate margin is a marg
Page 19 and 20: Incisions On the previous pages, va
Page 21 and 22: page 22 Leaf Bases
Page 23 and 24: page 24 Leaf Shapes
Page 25 and 26: page 26 Leaf Tip (apex) Leaf tip ty
Page 27 and 28: page 28 Width of leaf 5 1/2 inches
Page 29 and 30: page 30 flowers pedicels peduncle B
Page 31 and 32: page 32 Glossary of Botanical Terms
Page 33 and 34: classification - the placement of a
Page 35 and 36: foliage - leaves of a plant foveola
Page 37 and 38: monoecious - plant has separate flo
Page 39: otundate - rounded in outline rugos

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