BotanyBotany is a very old branch of science that began with early people’s interest in the plants around them. Plant science now extends from that in...
BromeliaceaeThe family Bromeliaceae comprises a group of perennial, monocotyledon herbs or trees that often age slowly.Important ornamentals (called b...
Seaweeds that are brown to olive-green in color belong to the phylum Phaeophyta, or brown algae, which includes between fifteen hundred and two thousa...
BryophytesBryophytes comprise three phyla of nonvascular plants, which generally lack the specialized conductive tissues (xylem and phloem) that are f...
Bulbs and rhizomes are modified stems, stem bases, or other underground organs used by plants for food (or energy) storage and in asexual reproduction...
Alternative forms of photosynthesis are used by specific types of plants, called C4 and CAM plants, to alleviate problems of photorespiration and exce...
Wild cactiSucculents are fleshy plants that store water in natural reservoirs such as stems or leaves. Cacti are a group of flowering plants; all cact...