Stalk
Of plant organ. May also be referred to as stem.
A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ.
This concept's ID is @1~65634
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- bulb
A modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive...
- tuber
A fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage.
- branch
A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant.
- axis
The main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are...
- cane
A strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane.
- receptacle
Enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts.
- slip
A part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through...
- trunk
The main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially...
- scape
Erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip.
- petiole
The slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf.
- corm
Solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive stru...
- carpophore
A slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel.
- cornstalk
The stalk of a corn plant.
- node
(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves...
- filament
The stalk of a stamen.
- funiculus
The stalk of a plant ovule or seed.
- petiolule
The stalk of a leaflet.
- sporangiophore
Stalk bearing one or more sporangia.
- rootstock
A horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive s...
- caudex
Woody stem of palms and tree ferns.
- internode
A segment of a stem between two nodes.
- cladode
A flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf.
- beanstalk
Stem of a bean plant.
- stock
Persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant.
- stipe
Supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting...
- culm
Stem of plants of the Gramineae.
- haulm
Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and b...
- gynophore
The stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle.