perennial plant

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perennial
adjective
uk
/pəˈren.i.əl/us
/pəˈren.i.əl/
lasting a very long time, or happening repeatedly or all ...
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plant
noun
uk
/plɑːnt/us
/plænt/
a living thing that grows in earth, in water, or on other plants, usually has a stem, leaves, roots, and flowers, and ...
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The trade-off of carbon among various functions is avoided if the total pool is increased in the more efficientperennialplant.
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Natural selection may have produced adaptations that allow theperennialplantto live through periods of extreme heat, drought or flooding.
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In contrast, the natural ecosystems displaced through agricultural conversion featured diverseperennialplantcommunities.
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It grows as an annual, a biennial or aperennialplant, depending on the habitat.
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If natural selection is not acting strongly for seed yield relative to the aggregate of many other traits in aperennialplant, low seed yield is expected.
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Instead of producing seeds as its primary mode of dissemination, aperennialplantmay instead invest in rhizomes that result in vegetative spread into favorable environments24.
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By selecting strongly for seed yield in a population of perennial plants, the plant breeder can likely achieve that which is rare in nature-a high seed-yieldingperennialplant.
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It is a prostrate, mat-forming evergreenperennialplantforming patches up to 30-40 cm diameter.
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It is a woodland herbaceousperennialplantgrowing to 5090 cm tall, with alternate, oblong-lanceolate leaves 715 cm long and 36 cm broad.
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It is a herbaceousperennialplantgrowing to 60100 cm tall (the largest species of buttercup), with a stout rhizome.
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It is a flowering herbaceousperennialplantgrowing to 1.2 m tall, with branched, thinly hairy stems.
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It is a herbaceousperennialplantgrowing to 0.54 m tall.
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It is a short (5 to 25 cm tall)perennialplant.
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It is a herbaceous annual orperennialplantgenerally found in slow streams, ponds, or lakes.
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It is a herbaceous annual, occasionally biennial or a short-livedperennialplant, growing to between 40-80 centimetres tall.
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It is a small herbaceousperennialplantwith one or more whorls of obovate leaves.
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It is a herbaceousperennialplantgrowing to 80 cm tall.
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It is a herbaceousperennialplantgrowing to 830 cm tall.
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It is a herbaceousperennialplantgrowing to 80 cm tall, with spirally arranged, deeply lobed leaves 520 cm long.
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It is a very large bulbousperennialplant, up to 2 to 3 metres tall, with a spread of up to 3 metres.
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