Sometimes it takes a shorter plant to help a liana get to the top.
Tag - lianas
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Dale Maylea
Do lianas spend fewer resources on roots for support than other plants?
If a plant can lean on something else, does it really need to invest so much in its roots for support? Could resources usually used for roots be redirected to stems and leaves? In a new paper, Tomasz Wyka and colleagues...
Alun Salt
Unravelling the roots of lianas
Woody vines collectively known as lianas are fundamental components of tropical forests but their root structure is largely unexplored. Stems of Sapindaceae display diverse architectures and an anatomical pattern...
botanyone
Secondary phloem diversity and evolution in Bignonieae
This study explores phloem evolution in the species-rich Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae) tribe.
It’s not just Tarzan who liked lianas – Darwin did too
Plant ecologists have long sought to classify the bewildering variety of plant species into a manageable number of functional types that could be used to represent the essential characteristics of particular biomes or...
AJ Cann