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Botany, with the subtitle The Science of Plant Life, is a book by Norman Taylor. The text says any lumberman can point out at once heartwood and sapwood, and that his distinctions are just as good as those of the scientist. The text says the successive layers of cambium, year after year, give tree trunks their annual rings. A figure caption says potatoes are swollen portions of rootstock.
The text lists plants that all bear legumes, a pod that splits down one side, among them the pea, the bean, vetch, alfalfa, lentil, locust tree, and dozens of valuable timber trees in the tropics. The text says the rain forest is further impeded by hosts of epiphytes, or plants that are mechanically attached to tree trunks, branches, or anything else that will raise them to the light.
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- Author
- Norman Taylor
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 330
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Popular Science
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