Talk:Rosette (botany)

message: Hi MB, I hope you are persevering so I'll go through this carefully:
*Dictionary: yes rosette is a description, specific to shape, function and stage of a plant's maturity. See Plant morphology.
*No business editing: it is any constructive editor's business looking to improve wikipedia (my view). If you want an authoritative ruling, well it would be a pity if every article had to wait for that. Wikipedia would drop dead overnight. Some articles have authorities who pwn the page so I wouldn't ask for that exactly.
*In architecture and cake decorating: you're right, because it is a specfic shape; in those fields it is an adornment; not so in botany as you know, where everything has a function even when it is pretty, but it is still a shape of a plant's growth habit. (See Habit (biology)
:However, it is used to describe a plant from a fern, to a thistle, to succulents, to epiphytes,and wiat for it, palms. Are you thinking it's maybe a classification? It's primarily a growth habit as different from say, a "branching" or indeterminate habit.
*When you use crown, see Crown (botany). When I use rosette for these families above, it applies to a shape with variations ranging from the truest form if you like, on the tap root at ground level, sending up flower stems (dandelion). Variations include: a stem with other kinds of leaves preceding or around the flower head; a lengthening as the plant matures, where the internodes are further apart and branch or stem to bear flowers/seed heads.
*Stay open with the ferns – there's more. There are rosette ferns such as Bird's Nest/Crows Nest, Fiddlehead or Ostrich Fern, and rosette epiphytes (Aspeniaceae, Elaphoglossaceae and Vittariaceae) for example Bromeliads.
*As for the difference between a rosette plant propagating at the base, one with a base that stems and branches to seed, and one that doesn't as the dandelion, the description is not definitive. What it isn't, I guess, is when it's a tree with a rosette crown such as palms, or tree fern; problem with that is that the young state is what you'd call rosette. Since some succulents have that growth habit and are described as "rosette", perhaps the descriptor should be extended rather than chopped back. : )
With all these taxonomies with members showing rosette morphology, the article should be well-muscled, dontcha think?
:I can see you're passionate about this and going with it (rather than shutting things out) will take you on quite a trip.
I'm putting all this here as a contribution to the content which is what I thought the original ref plea was for. If it was for a qualified botanist, my bad because I'm not that.  Julia Rossi (talk) 23:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, you could play one on television with all that info. Will masticate and ruminate and sleep on it (EDT, you know). I expect to be going to the local library before long to cram botany for this. --Milkbreath (talk) 01:10, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Have fun. I hear the clink of tea cups. ; ) Julia Rossi (talk) 01:20, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Thanks for asking at WikiProject Plants.  I don't know enough to give a definitive definition, but you seem to be on the right track (I mostly know the word in terms of Asteraceae such as goldenrod).  I will mention one other data point, the caulescent rosette which is described at Marcescence of all places and shown in the photograph :Image:Frailejones chiles.JPG at Espeletia. Kingdon (talk) 05:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the mention of goldenrod from the article; it isn't really any different (or more rosette-like) than a wide variety of Asteraceae (and in fact, since this is just from my memory, I could be getting mixed up on which plants had the rosettes and which ones were the goldenrods). If there was some source other than my talk page comment, feel free to adjust accordingly. Kingdon (talk) 16:31, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: attack of the RDSkers (the sequel)

message: This term came up in another article.
What is a half-rosette? Or half rosette?
EE--78.150.141.201 (talk) 13:05, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Half rosette