This site is designed to help you learn about the general structure of plants. Parts of “General Botany” is used by UCLA courses taught by Professor Arthur C. Gibson, and therefore may contain more detail than you normally would encounter in typical library books.
The files for these topics and the colored images will be posted here gradually, so that some of the topics are not currently online. Visit this site to learn new topics that have been posted.
General Botany
- Types of shoots
- Bulb
- Cladode or phylloclade
- Corm
- Long shoot-short shoot
- Rhizome
- Stolon
- Sucker
- Tendril
- Tuber
- Shoot features
- General structure of a shoot
- Leaf arrangement and composition
- Leaf variations in shape and size
- Stipules and stipels
- Leaf color
- Growth habits and branching designs
- General structure of a shoot
- Plant armature
- Types of roots
- Bark features
- Pollination biology
- Seeds and fruits
- Seed morphology
- Fruit types
- Dispersal mechanisms
