BOTANY LEAVES

A detailed illustration of various leaf types and arrangements, highlighting features such as serration, phyllotaxy, and specialized structures like tendrils.

Leaf Anatomy and Identification Quiz

Test your knowledge of botany leaves with our engaging quiz! Answer questions about leaf structures, arrangements, and types while enhancing your understanding of plant biology.

11 multiple choice questions
Explore various leaf types and their characteristics
Perfect for students and plant enthusiasts

11 Questions3 MinutesCreated by GrowingLeaf237

: A single leaf at each node. A leaf on the left with nothing across from it, then a leaf on the right a little above or below.

Alternate

Opposite

Rosulate

Whorled

Elliptical

Longer than wide, but tapers smaller at the apex.

: Longer than wide, but tapers at both ends.

Narrow and the same width at both ends

An apex that tapers to a long, thin point.

Weak- stemmed plants, leaf or a part of leaf gets modified into green threadlike structures called tendrils which help in climbing around the support.

Storage Leaves:

. Leaf-spines:

Leaf Tendrils

Scale-leaves:

Phloem

Openings through which the exchange of gases takes place

Transports the photosynthetic products from the leaf to the other parts of the plant

Transports water and minerals to the leaves; the phloem transports the photosynthetic products to the other parts of the plant.

E covers the leaves of all plant species.

Cuticle

May perform three functions: to help prevent excess water loss, to protect against physical damage or damaging organisms, and to aid in reflecting intense sunlight.

Help to avert herbivory by restricting insect movements or by storing toxic or bad-tasting compounds.

A cluster of leaves at the base of the plant that form a rosette pattern. Usually, these have very short nodes and petioles.

Rosulate

Whorled

Alternate

Opposite

Leaf Bladder

This is a device to catch insects for fulfilling the deficiency of nitrogen in the medium where plant is growing.

is another insectivorous plant which grows in water. It bears highly dissected submerged leaves. Some of the segments of the leaf are modified into bladders or utricles.

The “trap” is made of two hinged lobes at the end of each leaf.

The petiole or any part of the rachis becomes flattened or winged taking the shape of the leaf and turning green in colour.

BOTANY LEAVES

Leaf Anatomy and Identification Quiz

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