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This is a document enumerating the different types of plant leaf apices and margins with the corresponding plant example with its scientific name and pictures. Bio 103: Fundamentals in Plant Biology.

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Shaina Mavreen D. Villaroza Bio 103 Section: B

Submitted to: Ma’am Christina Barazona

Leaf Margins Plant Example

a.) Ciliate

Pinebarrens Peanut-grass (Amphicarpum amphicarpon)

b.) Cleft

Cleft Violet (Viola palmata)

c.) Crenate

Dead Nettle (Lamium incisum)

d.) Crenulate

Dogwood (Pomaderris apetala)

e.) Dentate

American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)

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f.) Denticulate

Koreanspice Viburnum (Viburnum carlesii)

g.) Entire

Honeysuckle (Lonicera implexa)

h.) Incised

Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum)

i.) Involute

Blue Princess Meserve Holly (Ilex meserveae)

j.) Lacerate

Northern Wolfsbane (Aconitum lycoctonum)

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k.) Laciniate

Soft Speargrass (Aciphylla montana)

l.) Lobed

Oak (Quercus)

m.) Pinnatified

Fruit Salad Plant (Monstera deliciosa)

n.) Revolute

Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana)

o.) Serrate

Hop (Humulus lupulus)

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p.) Doubly Serrate

Hazel (Corylus avellana)

q.) Serrulate

Carnival Bush (Ochna serrulata)

r.) Sinuate

Common Geranium (Pelargonium hortorum)

Leaf Apices Plant Example

a.) Broadly Acuminate

Eastern Bluestar (Amsonia tabernaemontana)

b.) Narrowly Acuminate

Ozark Bluestar (Amsonia illustris)

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c.) Abruptly Acuminate

Slippery Elm (Ulmus rubra)

d.) Broadly Acute

Wooly Croton (Croton capitatus)

e.) Narrowly Acute

Northern Green Orchid (Platanthera flava)

f.) Apiculate

Camellia (Camellia sinensis)

g.) Aristate

Wild Cherry (Prunus avium)

h.) Caudate

Bo Tree (Ficus religiosa)

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i.) Cuspidate

Kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum)

j.) Emarginate

Wood Spurge (Euphorbia commutata)

k.) Mucronate

Clasping Milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis)

l.) Obtuse

Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

m.) Retuse

Carrotwood (Cupaniopsis anacardioides)

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