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Horticulture

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

Contributors in Horticulture

Horticulture

Heaving

Plants; Horticulture

Lifting of soil and plants due to frost and ice.

Mutation

Plants; Horticulture

A change in the expected genetic or tissue makeup of a plant. A sudden change in genetic material resulting in an altered individual. Generally disadvantageous to the mutated plant's survival.

Mulch

Plants; Horticulture

Any loose material placed over the soil to control weeds and conserve soil moisture. Usually a coarse organic matter, such as leaves, clippings or bark.

Mother block

Plants; Horticulture

A certified group of plants used to derive propagation tissues.

Monoecious

Plants; Horticulture

A species with unisexual flowers, having both sexes on the same plant.

Monoclonal cultivar

Plants; Horticulture

A cultivar that correctly represents a single clone.

Monopodial

Plants; Horticulture

Continuing growth from a terminal bud each year.

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