Colloquial
111head — Colloquial, in reference to the individual apices of a multi headed plant …
112leaf scar — Colloquial for persistent leaf base, with or without an abscission, often forming rings on arborescent caudices corresponding to successive flushes …
113leggy — Colloquial for a plant growing tall and spindly, usually from inadequate sunlight; etiolated …
114lip — Colloquial, in cycads, a margin of tissue protruding from the terminal facet of the sporophylls, e.g. as in Encephalartos villosus …
115long-stalked — Colloquial, pertaining to a long peduncle. Cf. sessile, short stalked …
116machete botany — Colloquial, crude method of study and collection by early botanists and naturalists …
117‘mother’ plant — Colloquial, referring to a plant that has produced suckers or offsets that have been removed by division for the purpose of vegetative propagation …
118pulp — Colloquial for the soft, fleshy layer of the sarcotesta …
119pup — Colloquial, referring to a cycad sucker or offset; occasionally applied to suckers or offsets separated from a ‘mother’ plant for the purpose of vegetative propagation …
120short-stalked — Colloquial, pertaining to a short peduncle; sessile. Cf. long stalked …