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Aerial root

Index Aerial root

Aerial roots are roots above the ground. [1]

35 relations: Aeroponics, Avicennia germinans, Avicennia marina, Banyan, Bryophyllum daigremontianum, Chlorophytum, Cloning, Cypress knee, Epiphyte, Ficus macrophylla, Fishing net, Fort Myers, Florida, Gravitropism, Hedera helix, Lenticel, Mangrove, Metrosideros excelsa, Metrosideros robusta, Mistletoe, New Zealand, Orchidaceae, Osmosis, Parasitic plant, Plant development, Root, Sonneratia caseolaris, Southeast Asia, Stolon, Strangler fig, Strawberry, Taxodioideae, Tillandsia, Toxicodendron radicans, Vegetative reproduction, Vine.

Aeroponics

Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium (known as geoponics).

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Avicennia germinans

The black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), is a shrub in the acanthus family, Acanthaceae.

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Avicennia marina

Avicennia marina, commonly known as grey mangrove or white mangrove, is a species of mangrove tree classified in the plant family Acanthaceae (formerly in the Verbenaceae or Avicenniaceae).

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Banyan

A banyan, also spelled "banian", is a fig that begins its life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice.

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Bryophyllum daigremontianum

Bryophyllum daigremontianum, commonly called devil’s backbone, mother of thousands, alligator plant, or Mexican hat plant is a succulent plant native to Madagascar.

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Chlorophytum

Chlorophytum (Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 common name spider plant), is a genus of almost 200 species of evergreen perennial flowering plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.

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Cloning

Cloning is the process of producing genetically identical individuals of an organism either naturally or artificially.

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Cypress knee

A cypress knee is a distinctive structure forming above the roots of a cypress tree of any of various species of the subfamily Taxodioideae.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Ficus macrophylla

Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig or Australian banyan, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the family Moraceae native to eastern Australia, from the Wide Bay–Burnett region in the north to the Illawarra in New South Wales, as well as Lord Howe Island.

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Fishing net

A fishing net is a net used for fishing.

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Fort Myers, Florida

Fort Myers or Ft.

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Gravitropism

Gravitropism (also known as geotropism) is a coordinated process of differential growth by a plant or fungus in response to gravity pulling on it.

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Hedera helix

Hedera helix, the common ivy, English ivy, European ivy, or just ivy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, native to most of Europe and western Asia.

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Lenticel

A lenticel is a porous tissue consisting of cells with large intercellular spaces in the periderm of the secondarily thickened organs and the bark of woody stems and roots of dicotyledonous flowering plants.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Metrosideros excelsa

Metrosideros excelsa, with common names pōhutukawa, New Zealand pohutukawa, New Zealand Christmas tree, New Zealand Christmas bush, and iron tree, is a coastal evergreen tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, that produces a brilliant display of red (or occasionally orange, yellow or white) flowers made up of a mass of stamens.

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Metrosideros robusta

Metrosideros robusta, the northern rātā, is a forest tree endemic to New Zealand.

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Mistletoe

Mistletoe is the English common name for most obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.

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Osmosis

Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration, in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides.

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Parasitic plant

A parasitic plant is a plant that derives some or all of its nutritional requirement from another living plant.

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Plant development

Plants produce new tissues and structures throughout their life from meristems located at the tips of organs, or between mature tissues.

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Root

In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil.

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Sonneratia caseolaris

Sonneratia caseolaris, also known as mangrove apple or crabapple mangrove, kirala (කිරල) in Sri Lanka, "'Kulhlhavah"' "ކުއްޅަވައް " in dhivehi, Maldives (ลำพู), is a species of plant in the Lythraceae family.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Stolon

In biology, stolons (from Latin stolō "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms.

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Strangler fig

Strangler fig is the common name for a number of tropical and subtropical plant species, including some banyans and unrelated vines, including among many other species.

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Strawberry

The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; Fragaria × ananassa) is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus Fragaria, collectively known as the strawberries.

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Taxodioideae

Taxodioideae is a subfamily in Cupressaceae.

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Tillandsia

Tillandsia is a genus of around 650 species of evergreen, perennial flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, native to the forests, mountains and deserts of northern Mexico and south-eastern United States, Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to mid Argentina.

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Toxicodendron radicans

Toxicodendron radicans, commonly known as eastern poison ivy or poison ivy, is a poisonous Asian and Eastern North American flowering plant that is well-known for causing urushiol-induced contact dermatitis, an itchy, irritating, and sometimes painful rash, in most people who touch it.

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Vegetative reproduction

Vegetative reproduction (also known as vegetative propagation, vegetative multiplication or vegetative cloning) is any form of asexual reproduction occurring in plants in which a new plant grows from a fragment of the parent plant or grows from a specialized reproductive structure.

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Vine

A vine (Latin vīnea "grapevine", "vineyard", from vīnum "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_root

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