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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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Smut

Plants; Horticulture

A fungal disease that often has grey or black spores.

Standard

Plants; Horticulture

A small tree commonly produced by grafting a weeping or dwarf form on a trunk of the desired height. An upright single-stemmed plant as grafted tree roses; an upright petal as in many members of the ...

Stem

Plants; Horticulture

The trunk and its branches; one of the three fundamental parts of a higher plants- root, stem and leaf. A vascular growing axis of a plant with buds and growing nodes.

Sterile

Plants; Horticulture

Lacking fertility or reproductive potential; said of a soil heated or treated to remove harmful organisms. Barren, not able to produce seed.

Sterilisation

Plants; Horticulture

The process of killing insects and disease in soil; process of killing harmful organisms on cultured plant tissue.

Stigma

Plants; Horticulture

The receptive female portion, usually the distal end of a pistil, of a flower that receives pollen.

Stick

Plants; Horticulture

Verb used when one places cuttings in a rooting medium or bed.

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