Plant Terminology
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Leaf Surfaces
Glabrous
(smooth, hairless)
Glaucous
(whitish/bluish waxy coating)
Hirsute
(Pubescent with coarse, stiff hairs)
Lanate
(wooly)
Pubescent
(short hairs)
Scabrous
(rough)
Scurfy
(bran-like scales)
Tomentose
(short, matted, tangled, soft wooly hairs)
Glabrous
Glabrous leaves of
Prunus lusitanica?
Glaucous
Glaucous leaves of
Dudleya
Hirsute
Borage has coarse stiff (hirsute) hairs
Lanate
Native mallow with its lanate leaves
Pubescent
Cuban oregano, magnified,
showing pubescent leaf surface
Scabrous
Fremontodendron
have scabrous leaves
Scurfy
Tomentose
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