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INCH PLANT [10 records]

Record 1 2025-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Commelinaceae.

Key term(s)
  • inch plant
  • silver inchplant
  • silver inch-plant

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Commelinaceae.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Commelinaceae.

OBS

inch plant : common name also used to refer to the species Tradescantia zebrina.

Key term(s)
  • basketplant
  • inchplant
  • chainplant

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Commelinaceae.

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Commelinaceae.

Key term(s)
  • creeping inch plant
  • turtle vine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Commelinaceae.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
DEF

A grayish weevil(Anthonomus grandis) about 1/4 inch long that infests the cotton plant puncturing and laying its eggs in the squares and bolls, the larvae living in and feeding on the interior substance of the buds and bolls and doing great damage to developing cotton.

OBS

An insect (order Hemiptera) of the family Curculionidae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Insecte (ordre des hémiptères) de la famille des Curculionidae.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Insectos, ciempiés, arañas y escorpiones
Entrada(s) universal(es)
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Record 5 2016-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A tropical plant from Argentina of the family Commelinaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de serre de la famille des Commélinacées.

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A tropical creeper from Jamaica of the family Commelinaceae. It is also known under the scientific names: Tradescantia multiflora and Gibasis geniculata.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de serre de la famille des Commélinacées.

Spanish

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Record 7 2011-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
  • Grain Growing
DEF

The common smut of Indian corn caused by a fungus (Ustilago maydis) and characterized by grayish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass.

CONT

Like other smut diseases, common smut of corn derives its name from the sooty masses of teliospores found on infected host plants... The most obvious symptoms are tumor-like galls that vary in size from less than 1 cm to more than 30 cm(0. 4-12 inch) in diameter. All meristematic tissues are susceptible to infection. Galls are found most frequently on ears, tassels, stalks, nodal shoots, and mid-ribs of leaves... Even though galls may form on many above-ground parts of the plant, infection is local(i. e., the host is not colonized systemically). Occasionally, galls develop beneath the soil surface when the apical meristem of a young plant is infected.

OBS

Although Ustilago maydis occurs throughout the world where corn is grown, the occurrence of common smut is localized in Australia where the disease is known as "maize boil smut".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
  • Culture des céréales
DEF

Maladie du maïs causée par un champignon pathogène, Ustilago maydis.

OBS

Ustilago maydis attaque principalement les parties des plantes se trouvant en division cellulaire active. Les symptômes sont des sores gris qui apparaissent sur les tiges, les épis, les feuilles ou les inflorescences. Les sores éclatent après un certain temps et des spores brunes à noires sont libérées. Celles-ci peuvent survivre dans le sol pendant au moins 4 ans. Les plantes sont contaminées par des spores se trouvant dans le sol ou l'air.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de las plantas
  • Cultivo de cereales
CONT

El carbón común del maíz causado por Ustilago maydis, se identifica fácilmente por las agallas tipo tumor que se forman en los tejidos en activo crecimiento. Estas contienen una masa oscura, pulverulenta de teliosporas (esporas del carbón). Las agallas jóvenes se consideran comestibles y en México se conoce a la comida como cuitlacoche (Sin. huitlacoche).

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Record 8 2001-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
  • Plant Biology
  • Botany
CONT

The buckwheat flower has no petals-the sexual parts, the ovary, three styles and eight stamens being enclosed in the petallike sepas. Four of the anthers bend out but turn their pollen inward. The other four turn their pollen outward(Knuth 1909, pp. 341-342). Some plants have flowers, referred to as the "thrum" type, with short styles and long filaments so the stamens extend above the styles. Other flowers, referred to as "pin" types, have long styles and short filaments so the stigma is avobe the anthers. Occasionally, the styles and stamens are at the same height. The long stamens and filaments are fully 3 mm; the shorter ones, about 2 mm. Although each plant bears flowers of only one form, the seeds from either form will produce plants having the dimorphic forms in about equal numbers. The thress styles lead to a single ovary with one ovule, so a flower can produce only one seed, which is about one-quarter inch long.

OBS

From the Latin prefix meaning "brevi" meaning short

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
  • Biologie végétale
  • Botanique

Spanish

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Record 9 1991-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flowers and Ornamentals (Horticulture)
DEF

A pinch which removes enough terminal growth that it can be used as a cutting.

CONT

The second pinch is called the hard pinch.

CONT

Pinching removes the terminal growing point of the plant, and causes growth of the lateral branches... A hard pinch, which removes more than one inch of the growing tip, may check the growth of the plant.

OBS

Technique used with cut flower crops.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Floriculture
OBS

Plantes ornementales.

Spanish

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Record 10 1991-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flowers and Ornamentals (Horticulture)
DEF

The method of removing a small part(one-half inch) of the top of the plant.

CONT

Pinching removes the terminal growing point of the plant, and causes growth of the lateral branches. To obtain the greatest number of lateral branches and to ensure that the growth is not checked, a soft pinch is used.

OBS

Technique used with cut flower crops.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Floriculture
OBS

Plantes ornementales.

Spanish

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