A report on Fibrous root system

Fibrous roots of mature Roystonea regia palm, Kolkata, India

Opposite of a taproot system.

- Fibrous root system

Fibrous roots of mature Roystonea regia palm, Kolkata, India

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Fern

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Member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

Member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

A fern unrolling a young frond

Ferns at the Royal Melbourne Botanical Gardens

Tree ferns, probably Dicksonia antarctica, growing in Nunniong, Australia

Tree ferns, Alsophila spinulosa,

Sporophylls of Acrostichum aureum

Ferns at Muir Woods, California

Close-up of a monarch fern sorus, showing its sporangium

Gametophyte (thalloid green mass) and sporophyte (ascendent frond) of Onoclea sensibilis

Blätter des Manns Walfarn. by Alois Auer, Vienna: Imperial Printing Office, 1853

Barnsley fern created using chaos game, through an Iterated function system (IFS).

Ferns in one of many natural Coast Redwood undergrowth settings Santa Cruz, CA

Fern bed under a forest canopy in woods near Franklin, Virginia

Fern growing on a wall

Silver fern or Alsophila dealbata, endemic to New Zealand

Adiantum philippense

{{Interlanguage link multi|Pyrrosia piloselloides|id|Pyrrosia piloselloides}}, dragon's scale, in Malaysia

Hymenophyllum nephrophyllum, the kidney fern

Tree fern, probably Dicksonia antarctica

Tree ferns, probably Dicksonia antarctica

"Filicinae" from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904

A young, newly formed fern frond

A tree fern unrolling a new frond

Fern leaf, probably Lomaria nuda

Nature prints in The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland used fronds to produce the plates

Sporangia of Dryopteris filix-mas

Tree fern sporangia San Diego, CA

Sporangia on a leaflet

Epiphytic fern on the branch of Cephalotaxus wilsoniana

They are always fibrous and structurally are very similar to the roots of seed plants.

Coconut

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Member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos.

Member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos.

De-husked coconut fruit showing the characteristic three pores resembling a face

Chronological dispersal of Austronesian peoples across the Indo-Pacific

A wa'a kaulua (double-hulled canoe) from Hawai'i. Catamarans were one of the early technological innovations of Austronesian peoples that allowed them to colonize the islands of the Indo-Pacific and introduce coconuts and other canoe plants along their migration routes.

Fossil "Cocos" zeylanica from the Miocene of New Zealand, approximately the size of a strawberry at 3.5 cm long

Coconut palm heavy with fruit

Coconut inflorescence unfurling

Palms tolerate the saline and infertile soils of laterite type in Goa, India

A coconut plantation in Efate, Vanuatu

Coconut trees on a beach in Upolu, Samoa

Coconut germinating on Punaluʻu Beach on the island of Hawaiʻi

The Pacific flying fox (Pteropus tonganus) feeding on nectar and pollen from coconut flowers in Fiji

Worker in the Philippines using a bamboo bridge network to collect sweet coconut sap from cut flower stalks for the production of lambanog, a distilled alcoholic drink

Red nata de coco in syrup from the Philippines

Macapuno preserves sold in the United States

Coconuts being sold on a street in India

Coconut trees line the beaches and corniches of Oman

Immature green coconuts sold in Bangladesh for coconut water and their soft jelly-like flesh

Soft immature coconut meat are usually eaten as is

Coconut milk, a widely used ingredient in the cuisines of regions where coconuts are native

Coconut water drink

Ubod (coconut heart of palm) from the Philippines

Bahalina, a traditional coconut wine (tubâ) from the Philippines fermented from coconut sap and mangrove bark extracts

Extracting coir, the fiber from the coconut husk, in Sri Lanka

Coconut buttons in Dongjiao Town, Hainan, China

A "coconut monkey" from Mexico, a common souvenir item carved from coconut shells

Fish curry being served in coconut shell in Thailand

Pusô, woven pouches of rice in various designs from the Philippines

Making a rug from coconut fiber

Palaspas, woven palm fronds during Palm Sunday celebrations in the Philippines

A canang, an offering of flowers, rice, and incense in woven coconut leaves from Bali, Indonesia

Unlike some other plants, the palm tree has neither a taproot nor root hairs, but has a fibrous root system.

Rosemary

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Shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region.

Shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region.

Rosemary flowers

S. rosmarinus 'Prostratus'

Illustration from an Italian herbal, circa 1500

Illustration from Köhler's Medicinal Plants

Rosemary has a fibrous root system.