FOR200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sapindaceae, Thuja, Spruce
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Ex: sugar maple latin: acer saccharum (sapindaceae) Acer genus name *know for tests! Saccharum species epithet (species you are looking at) changes when you identify with different species. Pines - pinus species: white pine - pinus strobus, red pine - pinus resinosa. Spruces - picea species: needle like leaf joins with branch but only one needle, for every point that connects to the branch there is only one needle. Have needles that wraps around the branch: colorado blue spruce picea pungens, white spruce picea glauca. Simple leaf: for any single leaf stock that connects to the branch, there is only one leaf blade that is connected to the leaf stock. Compound leaf: multiple leaflets that are held up by an individual leaf stock. Alternate: one side of branch to the next. Opposite: on any given location, there will be two leafs coming out directly on either side.
