UNIT 1. PARTS AND FUNCTIONS OF A PLANT
THE PLANT A plant is a living organism. It is made up of different parts, each or which has a particular purpose, or specialized function. If one part of the plant is not functioning properly the whole plant will suffer. But we may cut flowers off the plant or prune the roots or the branches. Such damage is only temporary and so the plant will continue to grow. Plants have two Organ Systems : the shoot system and the root system. 1. The root system is below ground. This system includes roots, tubers (an enlarged, fleshy, underground stem with buds capable of producing new plants) and rhizomes (a horizontal stem that is usually underground and roots grow from it.) 2. The shoot system is above ground. This system includes these organs: stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds. THE ROOT The root is usually below the ground. It has two main functions: 1.-It absorbs the water and minerals from the soil and sometimes stores food. 2.-It holds or ancho
Quercus ilex:
ResponderEliminarIt can reach 15 meters high easily and sometimes even duplicate it.
It begins to bear fruit in quantity at 8 or 10 years and can produce up to 100.
Spain has the highest density of oak
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ResponderEliminarFacts about cherries:
ResponderEliminar- Sweet cherries contain melatonin, which has a calming effect on the brain, and good for insomnia and stress relief.
- Cherries are a natural pain reliever. Anthocyanins found in cherries block inflammatory enzymes, reducing pain. In fact, 20 cherries are ten times as potent as aspirin and have positive effects on gout and arthritis pain.
- The Spanish love their cherries or, as they know them, the cereza. The country is the second largest producer of cherries in Europe.
- Cherries are grown in vast quantities in the Jerte Valley, north of Extremadura, south west of Madrid. There is even a cherry museum at Caceres in Extremedura.
- Four trees can produces oxigen for a family of 4 menbers
ResponderEliminar-The oldests tree have four thousand eighty hundred andfourty seven , it is in Jerusalen
-Trees produces many drugs and medicines
The cork oak is fire resistant.
ResponderEliminarThe first cork of cork oak is called bornizo.
The cork oak is a large tree
Pinus Pinea.
ResponderEliminarIt is a conifer, that can be found throughout the Iberian Peninsula, but especially in the southern part.
It is characterized by a straight and tall trunk, with a wide cup that gives a lot of shade.
It has a slow growth, and a life expectancy of 500 years.
But it has a particular characteristic is that it produces pine nuts.
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ResponderEliminar1. Dehesas have been considered habitats to be preserved because they main-
ResponderEliminartain a high biological diversity including several globally endangered animal species.
2. The cork oak is an evergreen oak that spreads in the countries of the western Mediterranean basin.
3. Retama sphaerocarpa is a nurse plant which improves seedling establishment in some systems, and it may have potential for use in restoration projects.
4. Holm oak timber is incredibly hard and strong, in fact, the Romans used the wood for making the wheels of carts and carriages, as well as agricultural tools.
5. All parts of a yew plant of Taxus baccata are toxic to humans, due to taxine alkaloids, with the exception of the yew berries.
Olea europaea (Olivo)
ResponderEliminarThe olive tree is a small and perennial tree.
The trunk is grayish and his leaves are opposite and lanceolate.
The flowers are hermaphrodites.
The fruit is the olive, an edible drupe from which olive oil is obtained, very apreciated in gastronomy.
The oak wood is used to mature wine in barrels. This wood gives wine a better flavour and differents attributes.
ResponderEliminarOak wood has other uses like construction of houses and ships, production of furnitures and charcoal.
Oak's fruit is called acorn, and it's fundamentally used to feed animals.
Cistus ladanifer (jara pringosa).
ResponderEliminarIt is a bush up to 2.5 m high. The leaves are elongated and narrow, and are abundantly impregnated with a sticky substance. His flowers are showy and white and generates a peculiar landscape in its time of flowering
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ResponderEliminarThe strawberry tree, Arbutus unedo, is a little tree or bush that reaches eight meters in height. The young branches are red and later it turns grey. The leaves are brilliant in the beam.
ResponderEliminarThe flower are white or pink-white. The fruits are red or strong orange and they are edible; but you can´t eat so much because they are indigestible.
This is a plant mayority mediterranean being an icon of city of Madrid forming part of their shield.
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ResponderEliminarthe lemon tree is of Asian origin that has leaves all the year. therefore, is perenne tree.
ResponderEliminarSomething curious about the lemon tree is that it blooms constantly and so it bears fruits in all seasons of the year.
ResponderEliminarThe leaves of Ginkgo biloba contain flavones (quercetol, kenferol, etc.), terpene lactones (ginkgolides) and phytosterols. They have more than remarkable venotonic effects, they act as neuroprotectors, vasodilators at the peripheral level, platelet antiaggregant, antihemorrhoidal, diuretic and antioxidant.
In traditional Chinese medicine, ginkgo seeds have been taken to combat phlegm in asthmatic attacks and bronchitis, as an antiallergic, to treat urinary incontinence, infant enuresis, inflammation of the bladder, vaginal candidiasis and as a renal tonic , yang, and sexual revulsive. And the leaves have been designed to alleviate circulation disorders, rheumatic inflammations and skin problems.