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DR YLAND PLANTS
LEAF SUCCULENT Translucent LEAF SUCCULENT
Haworthia truncata “window” Lithops bromfieldii
allows light Leaf Dead,
to reach withered
base of leaf Fissure leaf
Translucent Succulent
“window” leaf Mottled
allows light Waxy cuticle surface
to reach base (waterproof of leaf
of leaf covering)
Water-storing
Root tuber parenchyma
(packing tissue)
Photosynthetic
region Dead
flower in Unified
Translucent old fissure leaf pair
“window”
allows light to Fissure
reach center
LONGITUDINAL SECTION of leaf
THROUGH LEAF
Raised cell
surface Waxy cuticle
(waterproof
covering)
Root
Stoma
(pore) Photosynthetic Water-storing
region parenchyma
(packing
Cup surrounding tissue)
sunken stoma LONGITUDINAL SECTION
(pore) THROUGH LEAF PAIR
MICROGRAPH OF LEAF SURFACE
ROOT SUCCULENT
Oxalis sp.
Petiole
(leaf stalk)
Stem
Flower
bud
STEM AND ROOT SUCCULENT Root tuber
String of hearts Pedicel
(Ceropegia woodii) (flower stalk)
EXTERNAL VIEW
Root
Petiole Succulent
(leaf stalk) trailing stem Trifoliate
Stem leaf

Succulent Root
leaf tuber
Water-storing
Root tuber
parenchyma
Root
Root
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
THROUGH ROOT TUBER
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