DENDROLOGY AND SOCIETY
PLANT CLASSIFICATION
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Question
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What do you call hard stems made of wood?
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herbaceous stems
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woody stems
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xylem stems
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Plants which have hard woody stems and branches close to the ground are called shrubs. For e.g. china rose, camellia etc. These plants do not grow tall.
Detailed explanation-2: -They have a hard stem called trunk. Branches grow out of the trunk far from the ground.
Detailed explanation-3: -From the inside out, a woody bark has pith, xylem, cambium, phloem and bark. The pith, located in the very center, can be made of wood fibers or can be hollow on some plants. Xylem is the hard wood section that pulls water and minerals from the roots upward and serves as the support structure for the plant.
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