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Aconitum flowers
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Botanical Nerd Word: Cucullate

Cucullate: Hooded; shaped like a hood or cowl.* These Aconitum (monkshood) in the Garden Hall Courtyard have hooded flowers. *OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017.

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Ripe peaches on a tree
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Botanical Nerd Word: Drupe

Drupe: A fleshy, indehiscent fruit with a stony endocarp surrounding a usually single seed, as in a peach or cherry.* Summer is the time for eating many delicious drupes. Peaches, …

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People sitting under the shade trees in Edwards Gardens
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Botanical Nerd Word: Umbrageous

Umbrageous: Forming or affording shade; shady.* There’s nothing like enjoying an umbrageous old tree in the summer. *OED Online. Oxford University Press.

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Veronicastrum plant showing bloom and whorled leaves
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Botanical Nerd Word: Whorl

Whorl: A ring-like arrangement of similar parts arising from a common point or node; a verticil.* The leaves of this Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver’s root) are arranged in whorls at each node on the …

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Crocosmia plant showing sword-like leaves
Word of the Week

Botanical Nerd Word: Gladiate

Gladiate: Sword-like in appearance.* The sword-shaped leaves of this Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ are almost as striking as its bright red flowers. *Allaby, M. (2006). A dictionary of plant sciences (Revised ed.). …

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Strawberry plant with flower
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Botanical Nerd Word: Stoloniferous

Stoloniferous: Having stolons, horizontal, above-ground, creeping stems with roots and shoots forming at the nodes and the tip.* Strawberries and spider plants are both well known for reproducing by stolons. …

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two pellets of caterpillar frass
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Botanical Nerd Word: Frass

Frass: The excrement of larvæ; also, the refuse left behind by boring insects.* This year’s huge populations of caterpillars are producing large amounts of caterpillar frass. While the caterpillars may be …

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Pea pod split open to show developing seeds and funiculi
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Botanical Nerd Word: Funiculus

Funiculus: The stalk by which an ovule or seed is connected to the placenta in the ovary. The funiculus acts like an umbilical cord, supplying the developing ovule and seed …

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Botanical Nerd Word: Actinomorphic

Actinomorphic: Having multiple planes of symmetry such that any line drawn through the middle produces two mirror-image halves, usually applied to flowers.* Compare with zygomorphic. This striking red Dahlia ‘Mystic Enchantment’ …

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Tulip tree flower
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Botanical Nerd Word: Perfect

Perfect: Flowers that have functioning female and male reproductive parts.* The flowers of this Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree) have both male (pollen producing) stamens as well as female (pollen receiving) …

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