Welcome to the second edition of my blog about cloves. Today I will be talking about if cloves are a monocot or a dicot, and I will tell something about the root system of the clovetree.
Monocot or dicot?
Firstly I shall explain the difference between monocots and dicots. The most basic difference between the two are that a monocot has only one seed leaf or cotyledon while a dicot has 2. Next to this there are some other differences between the two, like:
- A monocot has floral parts in threes, while a dicot has floras parts in fours or fives.
- Monocots have parallel leaf veins, while a dicot has netlike leaf veins.
- The pollen grain with monocots have one pore or furrow, and the dicot has three.
- A monocot has vascular bundles throughout the stem's ground tissue, and a dicot has stem's vascular bundles arranged in rings.
(Watts,2017)
The clove tree belongs to the Myrtle family, and due to that cloves are a dicot.
(Clove seedlings) (Tradewinds,2017)
Clove root system
A clove tree, in its first year has a short taproot which is quickly replaced by two or three primary sinkers. Further in the first year fibrous roots spread out, which become much thicker in the following years. Over the years which the tree stands, the roots can extend to a size comparable to the tree's height. (E.A Weis, 2002)
Even though its a combination of the two, I would classify the clovetree with a taproot root system. This is due to trees generally having a taproot system.
(Fibrous roots (b) and taproot (a)) (Ekshiksha,2017)
https://hao.blackboard.nl/bbcswebdav/pid-772059-dt-content-rid-3443653_2/courses/hdb_v_IF2424_1718/Lecture%202%20Plant%20Anatomy%20and%20Morphology2015_16.pdf
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/content/clove.htm
https://books.google.nl/books?id=RqqTdAwXev4C&dq=cloves+fibrous+or+taproot%3F&hl=nl&source=gbs_navlinks_s
http://www.ekshiksha.org.in/eContent-Show.do?documentId=210
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