The stem of a leaf. The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, such as the fruiting of plants or color change of leaves. The chemical process through which light energy, water, and carbon dioxide are converted to carbohydrate and oxygen in the presence of chlorophyll . A plant whose roots generally extend downward to the water table which customarily feeds on the capillary fringe . Phreatophytes are common in riparian habitats .
Term literally means water-loving plants.
The name is short for pike-fish, a reference to the long, pointed snout resembling the pike, an iron tipped staff. Rather like the French, where brochet is the fish, but broche is a spit. The billowy forms created when lava cools and hardens underwater. A common feature of the Precambrian Ely Greenstone . Pine Any of the coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Pinus .