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Tag: winter

Oak with marcescent leaves
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Botanical Nerd Word: Marcescent

Marcescent (mar-ses-ent): of parts of certain plants, remaining attached to the plant when withered.* Many oak (Quercus spp.) and beech (Fagus spp.) trees have marcescent leaves that persist well into the …

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Botanical Nerd Word: Excurrent branching

Excurrent branching: Tree growth in which the main axis continues to the top of the tree from which smaller, lateral branches arise (as in conifers).* *Burns, Russell M. and Barbara H. …

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Close-up of squash seeds
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Botanical Nerd Word: Quiescent

Quiescent: In a state or condition of quietness; motionless; inactive; dormant.* Seeds in storage are said to be quiescent. They are purposely kept dry and cool to prevent them from germinating. …

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Winter buds on a beech twig.
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Botanical Nerd Word: Fusiform

Fusiform: Three-dimensionally shaped like a spindle, widest at the middle and tapering to a point at both ends.* The winter buds of beech trees (Fagus) have a fusiform shape. *Pell, S.K., …

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A procumbent cultivar of Scots Pine
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Botanical Nerd Word: Procumbent

Procumbent: Growing along the ground without rooting at the nodes.* This cultivar of Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris ‘Albyn Prostrata’, has a procumbent growth habit. In the wild, Scots pine grows …

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Seed heads in winter
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Botanical Nerd Word: Cryptobiosis

Cryptobiosis: A condition in which an organism (or an egg, seed, etc.) is in a dormant and resistant state without visible signs of life, remaining so until environmental or seasonal conditions …

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Winter is for pruning!

Director of Horticulture Paul Zammit shows you how and what to prune during the winter months.

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Fall and Winter in the Garden

Enjoy a  fall and winter photography tour of the Toronto Botanical Garden. All images Copyright Janet Davis 2008-2012.

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