Key A small indehiscent fruit with a wing. Knees Pointed or dome-like outgrowths from cypress roots rising above the water. Lanceolate Shaped like a lance-head, as applied to leaves. A bud borne in the axil of a previous season's leaf. Latex Milky sap.
Leaves originate at and mark the node or joints of the stem.
Buds normally occur in the angles or axils above leaves and are correspondingly alternate, opposite or whorled on the stem. Leaf scar Scars from which leaves have fallen. Leaf scars differ greatly in size and shape, and offer some of the best winter characteristics. The points where woody strands of vascular tissue passed up into the leaf are usually evident, and are called bundle scars or bundle traces. One of the divisions of a compound leaf.