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Scientific name for cinnamon |
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Cinnamomum zeylanicum
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Cinnamomun cassia |
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What kind of plant produces the spice cinnamon?
What part of the plant is used? |
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Cimmamon comes from a tree.
It is the inner bark. |
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What does "coppice" mean? |
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When the main trunk of a tree is cut down, leaving a tall stump. Adventitious buds grow from the stump, making many thin stems. |
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How is cinnamon produced? |
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The tree stems are cut from the tree.
The bark is stripped from the stem.
It is dried. |
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What are cinnamon quills? |
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The individual sticks of cinnamon |
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| What is the scientific name of the cork tree? |
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Definition
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| What part of the tree makes cork? |
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| Cork is the thickened bark of the tree. |
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| It is cut from the trunk of the tree. Care must be taken not to cut into the vascular cambium. |
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| How often can cork be harvested? |
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Because cork floats.
Cork cells are filled with suberin, so they are waterproof. |
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| What are the largest stems? |
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Redwood trees.
Coastal redwoods are the tallest.
Giant redwoods are the most massive (thickest) |
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An underground horizontal stem. It may be fleshy or not.
Example: ginger |
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The swollen end of a rhizome.
Example: white potato |
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A short, verticle underground stem.
Bulbs have many fleshy leaf bases that surround the short stem.
Ex. Onion |
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A short verticle underground stem.
Unlike a bulb, the stem is fleshy and the leaf are dried and papery.
Ex: Crocus |
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A horizontal above ground stem.
Ex: strawberry "runners" |
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| What makes a cactus stem unusual? |
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It doesn't have leaves.
It is the organ or photosynthesis. |
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The stem is very thin and weak.
It can't support the plant parts.
The vine has to climb up poles or trees. |
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