Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots.

It is the part that is found above the leaves but below the flower. When the flower is budding, the bracts are folded up around it to protect it.

Multiple plants that have had their trunks woven together during growth, while they’re flexible.

It is a method in which plants are maintained at a small size and often set in miniature landscapes.

A type of storage root that includes cells that grow into leaves and flowers. Most bulbs are made of layered scales, like an onion’s. Leaves and flowering stems comes out from the centre of the top of a bulb.

A container, usually more attractive, in which a slightly smaller container in which the plants grow, can be placed. It usually do not have drainage holes, or sometimes also have matching saucer.

Callus are those cells that form over a plant’s wound or cut plant surface. Callus prevents the loss of plant while saving it from fungi, and bacteria.

Yellowing of leaves, due to lack of chlorophyll, this may be caused due to poor drainage, high alkalinity, or by nutritional deficiencies, environmental issue, or plant’s old age.

Coir is a natural fibre extracted from the outer husk of the coconut. It is used as a good substrate for soil less cultivation.

Distilled water is a purified water achieved by boiling the water. This can be used for watering plants as it is an impurity free source of irrigation.

Plant leaves collectively.

A frond is a large, divided leaf. (Leaf or leaf-like part of a palm, fern, or similar plant.)

A white mold growing over the surface of the plant and is usually a parasite, drawing nutrients from a plant. Overwatering is the main reason for mold growth in container pots.

Hydroponics or Hydroculture technique is also growing in popularity. A good number of plants can be grown through this system. This involves growing indoor plants in a watertight container filled with support substrate (without the use of soil). Water and nutrients are supplied below the surface of the substrate. The purpose of the substrate is not only to act as a support media for the plant, but also to assist the movement of water and nutrients to plant roots. Commonly used medium include expanded clay aggregates, coir, perlite, Vermiculite. Introduce water & nutrients through a water filled tube. Watering from the top may result in formation of salt crystals on the top layer of substrate. Hydroponics is much less messy since no soil is involved. Less frequent application of fertilizer is required and pest infestations is also greatly reduced.

Area that receives 5 or more hours of direct sunlight daily. It is the brightest category of light for plants.

Area that receive only couple of hours of direct sunlight in winter. Balance time it receives indirect or reflected light.

Area that mostly receives good, bright, indirect light without any direct sun.

Area that receives no direct sunlight; is mostly a bit dark even during afternoon.

Loam is soil made with a balance of the three main types of soil: sand, silt, and clay soil. As a general rule, loam soil should consist of equal parts of all three soil types. This combination of soil types creates the perfect soil texture for plant growth.

fertilizers contains micronutrients. Micronutrient includes elements like Boron (B), Chlorine (Cl), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Molybdenum (Mo), Nickel (Ni), Zinc (Zn).

A palmate compound leaf has its leaflets radiating outwards from the end of the petiole, like fingers off the palm of a hand. Petiole is a leaf stalk that attaches a leaf to the plant stem.

It is a dark brown, fibrous, acidic, organic matter that decomposes in peat bogs. The decomposition happens in a very long time. Peat moss can absorb water very well. Peat moss is mixed with other growing media and can be a good growing medium for soilless culture.

A plant that re-grows every 1-2 years through its natural life span after dying back and becoming dormant (or semi-dormant) for several weeks, or sometimes months.

Plantlets are young or small plants. Many plants such as spider plants naturally create stolons (stems) with plantlets on the ends as a form of asexual reproduction.

A leaf is a common organ of any plant. There are two main types of leaves: a simple leaf and a compound leaf. A simple leaf is the standard common leaf that grows on a branch or a stem. A leaflet refers to a small leaf or a leaf-like part of a compound leaf.

The place where leaves attach to stems. When cuttings are set to root, new roots usually emerge from the nodes.

The most common insects that affect indoor houseplants are mealybugs, scale insects, spider mites and aphids.

Trimming (a tree, shrub, or bush) by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems, especially to encourage growth.

Main mass of roots located directly beneath the plants’ stem.

Transpiration is the evaporation of water from plant leaves.

Higher Transpiration rates help in the movement of toxin-filled air to the root zone where microbes in the soil can breakdown the gases into a source of food and energy.

Spathe leaf looks like a large flower petal, but it is actually a bract that surrounds a spike of tiny flowers.

Plants that store water in leaves, stems, or both.

Plant leaves, stem, fruit or flowers which appears to be white, cream or red or multi colour.

Many garden or soil mix do not have necessary constituents for proper growth of plant. So Vermiculite can be used as a substrate for growing seedlings. Mica-like material made from naturally occurring mineral deposits that lighten the texture of potting soil and improves its ability of moisture retention and drainage.

Plant whose stem requires support and that climbs by tendrils or twining or creeps along the ground, or the stem of such a plant. A vine is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or climbing stems, lianas or runners.