These cells may manufacture or store food, and can often divide or differentiate into other kinds of cells. A plant which continues to grow after it has reproduced, usually meaning that it lives for several years. A set of cells or cell parts which surround the opening of a moss sporangium. In many mosses, they are sensitive to humidity, and will alter their shape to aid in spore dispersal. One of the outer appendages of a flower, located between the outer sepals and the stamens .
Petals often display bright colors that serve to attract pollinators.
Nutrient-conducting tissue of vascular plants. Biochemical process in which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll, and is used to fuel the building of sugar molecules. It is an important character for defining the group. Leaves which are divided up like a feather are said to be pinnately compound. To severely damage the brain of a frog, also any central region of parenchyma tissue within a plant stem.