Applied Botany oaks

California’s Coast Live Oak has the scientific name ____________ _______________.

Southern Live Oak has   the scientific name _______________ ___________________.

Quercus engelmannii is also known as the __________________.

Oak twigs are known for having ____________ terminal buds.

Male oak flowers are borne on pendent stems called __________.

An acorn is “an indehiscent, one-celled, one-seeded hard and bony fruit” - which means it perfectly fits the botanical definition for a kind of fruit called a _______.

The oak acorn was a __________ when it first developed in the flower.

Oaks have both simple rays and huge rays. The thick ones are termed __________________ rays because they contain many rows of stacked cells.

Each year’s crop of oak seed is called the _______.

Cork Oak has the scientific name (a)_____________ ____________. The chemical that makes cork spongy and waterproof is called (b)___________.

To gain the most evident view of the large multiseriate rays in oak wood, you would cut a _______________ section.

In an oak cross section, the large vessel elements can be seen in cross section. Those vessels are large enough to be seen without a microscope. This is the reason we call oak a ______________ wood.

Pines produce seed, but they do not make them in fruit, rather the seed are produced in ____________________.

Pine twigs are known for being covered with specialized leaves called ____________.

Pine pollen are borne in special stems called _______.

Pines make wood, but they only make one type of water conducting cell. These are termed __________________ . They do not make the large vessel elements we see in oaks and other hardwoods.

Pines are anemophilous, which means they are ______ pollinated.

Young pine stems grow into elongate (a)_____________ that change as the (b)___________ elongate.

Through a microscope, to see the wood rays in side view, weaving from ring to ring, you would examine a _______________ section.

Pines (and other Gymnosperms) do not produce vessel elements. The only water-conducting xylem cells they produce are the  ______________ .

A wood section of pine, in which you look down into the water-conducting cells, easily see annual rings, and view rays from above is:

A pine wood section in which rays are seen coursing horizontally through the wood, from ring to ring, and in which vessel elements are seen in long section is a:

A pine wood section that features a view across rays (showing their thickness and depth), and in which vessels are seen in long view is a: