New answers tagged botany
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What is the primary function of a leaf?
Plants need to both capture carbon, and capture light energy to store it in carbon bonds. Since plants use CO2 as their carbon source, but can't store CO2 directly, carbon capture and photosynthesis ...
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Is this malus baccata?
This is a very well put together question! Showing images of all parts of the plant and giving a location makes this a fun question to answer.
You are really close in thinking that this is Malus ...
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