GLOSSARY

Canopy Catkin Chlorosis Columnar Compound Leaves Cultivar Deciduous Defoliation Evergreen Germinate Hybrid Panicles Pendulous Perennial Propagation Seedling Variation Species Suckers Terminal bud Understory Watersprouts Weeping

The upper most branches and foliage of a single tree, or a group of trees A compact and often drooping cluster of reduced, stalkless and unusual flowers Blanching of vegetation due to the absence of normal green chlorophyll An upright form of a tree or plant A leaf divided into smaller leaflets A “cultivated variety”; or new plants, arising either naturally or as a result of hybridization, but selected and maintained by persons The term that applies to plants that drop their leaves each season To cause the leaves of a plant to drop Plants that keep their foliage throughout the seasons Initiating growth or sprouting A plant resulting from a cross between two or more parents A loose, irregularly compound inflorescence with pedicellate flowers More or less hanging or declined A plant that lives without end as long as the environment is favorable, and dies back to the ground in the winter and then comes back in the spring Production of living plants from seed or by vegetative means New plants that have germinated from seed may have different characteristics than the parent plant, such as a slightly different leaf shape, color, flowers, branches, fall color or form A population of plants that have the potential to freely breed with one another and that is discontinuous in variation from other plants Vigorous, upright shoots that grow from below the ground or roots, primary from latent buds A bud formed at the tip of a stem, twig or branchlet The shrubs and smaller trees between the forest canopy and the groundcover Vigorous, upright shoots that grow above the ground, primary from latent buds on the trunk or older branches Having drooping branches