Botany Basics | How to Identify Different Plant Species Around You

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Did you know that there are around 400,000 plant species on Earth? In this episode you'll learn to identify these plant species, beginning with a basic understanding of root shapes, stem types, and leaf patterns. Get your trowel ready and dig up some botanical terminology!

This video is lecture five from the series The Botanist's Eye: Identifying the Plants around You, presented by Catherine Kleier

00:00 Classifying Roots and Stems
04:46 Identifying Leaves
08:47 Describing Leaf Venation
12:09 Flower Terminology
15:28 Exploring Parts of a Flower
18:43 Simple Fruits Versus Aggregate Fruits
21:51 Identifying Dry Fruits
26:12 What Is a Nut?
27:30 Classifying Fleshy Fruits

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[AngSu]

SUMMARY for myself
(Will continue watch later)
2 main Root types
- Taproot (like carrots)
- Fibrous (common roots)

- Adventitious (unusual roots, from stems or leaves)
- Prop

Stems
- Woody (base, trees, shrubs, sub shrubs)
- Forbs (anything that isn’t a grass)

Flowering
Annual (Spring to frost)
Perennial (usually flower in 2-3 year )

For broad leaved trees (like Evergreen magnolia)
- Leaf shape (more for species) & texture are main identifiers
- leaf arrangement (for families)

Node, flat base (typical), petiole

Leaf arrangement
- Opposite, Alternate, Whorled
- Compound leaf (Clover, not like Maple)

Feathered margin (pinnate, palmate veins)

Veins include
- Xylem - water
- Phloem - sugar

Leaf margins
Jagged - serrate (maybe easier to get photosynthesis instead of producing entire leaf)
Leaf hair - trichomes
- regulate temp, protect radiation, prevent water loss, slow evaporation

FLOWER
- reproduction, fruit,
- pollination & fertilisation
Inflorescence (flower arrangement)
- determinate (production stop at certain pt, start from centre)
- indeterminate (start from base)

[LAllan-lser]

Excellent presentation Dr.
Interesting — for professionals, students, horticulturalists and
even the home garden enthusiast.
That’s the mark of a good educator .

[dmaze]

Good work Dr Kleier: I taught General Botany many years ago at a community college and find you lecture refreshing. Look
I’ll be watching all of this series. Your students must appreciate you.

[gracefung]

This video is so informative… thanks for sharing. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[mohammadvaziri]

Thank you for your informative presentation. Excellent.

[oeautobody]

Clear well organized information, thank you.

[suyapajimenez]

I love it . Thank you. Waiting for the next

[mapache_del_sur]

This is an amazing resource. Thank you so much.

[ameremortal]

When I grew up in the Amazon, we knew each plant by the smell of the crushed leaf.

[shabirpathan]

Your teaching with images of plant parts is so good. Thanks

[Wethecenter]

Thanks for this…. Just went through your introduction to Botany audio book…. Very good as well !

[pmathew]

Love the content, organization and presentation

[stickfinderz]

I'll be thinking of the "hiss" factor, every time i water my petunias next summer 😂

[aTomallic]

This is the power of autism. I don't have an interest in botany, I do have an interest in writing, I write a character with plant powers and suddenly I'm watching a botany video and totally interested for a full 30 minutes!

[VijaySingh-htsy]

Oh myy goooossshhhh i love this video 😂🎉

[abdullahshafique]

Very nice...well done...Best channel for real authentic data of plants at #botanywithyoutube

[michaelhall]

I know what trichomes are because of weed 😃

[GosseAlvis-im]

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[depressedtoadmeow]

its so hard when your native language isnt

[duran]

‼️🆘‼️ I don’t care about the types of roots more than the reason why my indoor plants 🪴 keep dying even though I have been spoiling them more than my kids? 😒😒