Stems and Leaves

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Across
  1. 3. ___ rings wish the stem a happy birthday!
  2. 5. The end of a rhizome functioning as storage
  3. 8. Can still do cell division
  4. 11. Ray initials get their name from their purpose: to create ___ rays.
  5. 13. Inside a leaf scar, you can see multiple little ___ scars.
  6. 14. Leaf edge
  7. 16. dicot venation : branching :: monocot venation : ___
  8. 17. Twisting stems that attach to objects
  9. 20. Stem functions include support, conduction, and ___.
  10. 22. Woody stem’s “secondary cortex”
  11. 23. Parenchymatous ingrowths inside heartwood xylem lumen meant to block off any flow
  12. 25. Connection between a leaf and a stem?
  13. 30. An appendage at the leaf base
  14. 31. Medullary rays distribute in a ___ direction.
  15. 32. Compared to scaly bulbs, this type of bulb forms clear “onion rings” in a cross-section
  16. 35. Touch this stem and you go owie
  17. 36. Leaf blade
  18. 37. ___ growth is done by the stem’s apical meristem
  19. 39. The physiological active layer of wood, also called alburnum
  20. 40. Upper angle area between a leaf and a stem
  21. 42. The round-and-round movement of a growing stem
  22. 43. The seed’s embryonic shoot
  23. 44. Unlike woody stems, ___ stems die to the ground at the end of the growing season.
  24. 47. The middle, inner layers of a leaf
Down
  1. 1. Intrafascicular cambium joins the ___ cambium to form a continuous ring.
  2. 2. Process in telling the age of a tree
  3. 4. Monocot leaf collars have exclusive structures: auricles and ___.
  4. 6. gas circulation : spongy :: photosynthesis : ___
  5. 7. ___ initials are responsible for making secondary xylem and phloem.
  6. 9. Space between nodes
  7. 10. Heartwood is generally ___ than sapwood because of several deposits.
  8. 12. Dead and hard wood also known as duramen
  9. 15. Ginger
  10. 18. Opening on the stem where air can flow through
  11. 19. Leaves location?
  12. 21. Waxy layer
  13. 24. Gates with guards?
  14. 25. Outermost layer of periderm
  15. 26. ___ wood is more compact than early wood.
  16. 27. The ___ bud is responsible for primary growth.
  17. 28. Monocot stems have no ___.
  18. 29. ___ is formed by the vascular cambium 8-10 times more often than bast.
  19. 30. ___ growth begins with the activation of the vascular cambium
  20. 33. The cambium inside a vascular bundle
  21. 34. A plant’s "running" mate?
  22. 38. Spiral cluster of leaves at the base
  23. 41. Dicot stem vascular bundles are arranged in a ___.
  24. 42. ___ cambium: Also known as phellogen, it generates the periderm
  25. 45. Petiole-less
  26. 46. Fat underground stem coated by a single layer of leaves