Learning Objective 6 L earning O bjective 6 6. Flower and Fruit. For further discussion amd diagrams, it is recommended that the student refers to a introductory botony or biology text, which can be found in most libraries. A true root's origin is from the seedling .
Adventitious roots originate from the stem .
A herbaceous stem is typically soft, succulent and green. A woody stem is produced only in second and subsequent years of certain plants, usually trees, shrubs and some vines. Many dicots produce wood. A few monocots, like palm trees, bamboo and the hala tree, produce a woody-type growth differing structurally from dicot wood. Both are outer coverings on stems.