Plant life-form PREPARED BY: Karmakbay Asylbek ACCEPTED: Korogod N.P BS-11
Plant life-form Plant life-form schemes constitute a way of classifying plants alternatively to the ordinary species-genus-family scientific classification. In colloquial speech, plants may be classified as trees, shrubs, herbs (forbs and graminoids), etc.scientific classificationtreesshrubs herbsforbsgraminoids
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height.botanyperennialtrunksecondary growthlumber
A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant. Unlike herbs, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground.herbswoody An area of cultivated shrubs in a park or a garden is known as a shrubberycultivatedparkgardenshrubbery
In general use, herbs are any plants used for food, flavoring, medicine, or fragrances for their savory or aromatic properties. Culinary use typically distinguishes herbs from spices.spices BasilBasil and green onions, common culinary herbsgreen onions
Culinary herbs Culinary herbs are distinguished from vegetables in that, like spices, they are used in small amounts and provide flavor rather than substance to food.vegetablesflavorfood
. Most life form schemes are concerned with vascular plants only. Plant construction types may be used in a broader sense to encompass planktophytes, entophytes (mainly algae) and terrestrial plants.vascular plants algaeterrestrial plants Conversely, unrelated species may share a life-form through convergent evolution.convergent evolution
While taxonomic classification is concerned with the production of natural classifications (being natural understood either in philosophical basis for pre-evolutionary thinking, or phylogenetically as non-polyphyletic, plant-life form classifications uses other criteria than naturalness, like morphology, physiology and ecology. pre-evolutionaryphylogeneticallypolyphyleticnaturalness
Life-form and growth-form are essentially synonymous concepts, despite attempts to restrict the meaning of growth-form to types differing in shoot
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"Health benefits of herbs and spices: The past, the present, the future""Health benefits of herbs and spices: The past, the present, the future". Medical Journal of Australia. 185 (4): S1–S24. Life-forms of terrestrial flowering plants