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Horticulture

Of or pertaining to the business, science, and technology of intensely cultivating plants for the use of humans.

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Pedate

Plants; Horticulture

A palmately divided or compound leaf whose two lateral lobes are again cleft or divided.

Parasitic plant

Plants; Horticulture

A plant which lives on, and acquires its nutrients from another plant.

Pedicel

Plants; Horticulture

The stalk of a flower or fruit when in a cluster or when solitary.

Parvi-

Plants; Horticulture

Botanical name prefix meaning small or reduced.

Self

Plants; Horticulture

To cross a plant with its own flowers or one of identical type; said of flowers of one colour as opposed to a bicolor.

Seed

Plants; Horticulture

Fertilised and ripened ovules become the seeds. Also there are many kinds, shapes, sizes and colours of seeds.

Seed pods

Plants; Horticulture

The hardened protective shell that contains the maturing seeds of a plant.

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