- In botany,
areoles are
small light- to dark-colored
bumps on
cacti out of
which grow
clusters of spines.
Areoles are
important diagnostic features of...
- areola or
areole in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An
areola is a
small colored area of skin,
usually around the
nipple Areola or
areole (Latin for...
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structures called areoles, a kind of
highly reduced branch.
Areoles are an
identifying feature of cacti. As well as spines,
areoles give rise to flowers...
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retain stomata. The
areoles of
Rhodocactus species can form "brachyblasts",
called "spur shoots" by Beat Leuenberger. The
areole initially forms in the...
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found in
areoles of Opuntia). The
spines of
Fouquieria splendens develop from the leaf petioles. Sti****
spines on Vac****ia xanthophloea.
Areoles and spines...
- Echinocactus. However, both
Pereskia and
Echinocactus have
spines produced from
areoles (highly
specialised pad-like structures)
suggesting that the two genera...
- same six
cuticular structures of
areoles on the surface, the
significantly longer filaments on the
female crowned areoles.
Female horsehair appears to have...
-
areoles to
almost as wide as the
areole.: 220 They can be
pointlike to round,
polygonal to
stellate radiating fissures, and one to many per
areole....
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featuring colours from dull pink to dull brown, with small, dis****d, flat
areoles that are
irregularly shaped and
occasionally dissected by cracks, displaying...
- margins.
Structures characteristic of cacti,
called areoles, form in
these notches.
Flowers form from
areoles at the ends of the stems.
These are
scarlet in...
