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Xylem
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The water collecting tissue of vascular plants
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Phloem
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The food conducting tissue of vascular plants, bark
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Angiosperms
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A plant producing flowers and bearing (seeds) in an ovary (fruit)
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Gymnosperms
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Plants producing seeds which are not borne in an ovary (fruit), the seeds usually borne in cones
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Ferns
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Spore producing plant
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Roots
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The portion of the plant axis lacking nodes and leaves and usually found below ground
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Stems
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The portion of the plant axis bearing nodes, leaves, and buds andd usually found above ground.
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Leaves
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The usually expanded, photosynthetic organs of a plant
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Fibrous roots
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A root system with all of the branches of approximately equal thickness, as in the grass and other grasses and monocots
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Tap roots
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The main root axis from which smaller root branches arise; a root system with a main root axis and smaller branches, as in most dicots
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Adventitious roots
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Structures or organs developing in an unusual, as roots originating on the stem.
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Underground stems
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Rhizome
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A horizontal under ground stem; root- stock
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Stolon
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An elongate, horizontal stem creeping along the ground and rooting at the nodes or at the tip and gives rise to a new plant
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Tuber
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The trickened portion of a rhizome bearing nodes and buds; underground stem modified for food storage
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