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Resource Manual on IPPM in Vegetable
World Education Philippines, Inc.
ORGANIC is a material (e.g. pesticide) whose molecules contain carbon and
hydrogen atoms. Also may refer to plants or animals which are grown without
the use of synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
OVOID or egg-shaped; having the solid form of an egg.
OVULE is the female reproductive cell of flowering plants and cone-bearing plants.
After the ovule is fertilized by the male pollen, the ovule becomes a seed.
PALMATE leaf has a hand-like structure. It has more than three lobes that branch from a
single point at the base of the leaf. Refer to Figure 11.
PALMATE VENATION has the main veins arising from a point at the base of the leaf.
Refer to Figure 12.
Figure 11 Figure 12.
PARASITE is an organism which uses its host for food and/or shelter. A parasite gives
its host nothing in return and often makes it sick or even kills the host. Termites are a
parasite of many trees.
PARASITISM is a relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits
at the other organism's expense. Lice are an example of a parasite that affects many
animals; termites are parasites that are destructive to many trees. Parasitism is a type of
symbiosis.
PARTED (also called cleft) leaf is one in which the margins
between the irregular teeth go more than halfway to the midrib.
Refer to Figure 13.
PEAT is a type of soil that is composed of incompletely
decomposed plant material that water-logged and low in oxygen.
PEDICEL is plant stalk that attaches a single flower or fruit to the
main branch of the inflorescence.
PERENNIAL has a life cycle that lives for more than two years.
Perennials usually flower each year.
Figure 13.