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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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articular

Plants; Horticulture

A membrane consisting of the thin, enlarged base of the petiole, on which the leaf scar occurs.

crown

Plants; Horticulture

The part of a budded plant when the scion and understock meet.

cryptogam

Plants; Horticulture

A plant reproducing by spores such as most ferns and algae.

culm

Plants; Horticulture

An upright flowering stem from a rhizome; stem of grasses and sedges.

cultigen

Plants; Horticulture

Any plant arising from cultivation and not the wild.

cultivar

Plants; Horticulture

A cultivated variety; does not occur naturally.

cultivar group

Plants; Horticulture

An association of related cultivars with a species, subspecies, or variety due to common origin or groups of traits.

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