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Short Notes Class6 Getting To Know Plants

Plants can be grouped into herbs, shrubs, and trees. Herbs are short with tender stems and are used for flavoring food, medicine, and spirituality. Shrubs have harder but not very thick stems and are taller than herbs. Trees have many branches on a thick brown stem. Leaves are the food factories of plants where photosynthesis occurs. Leaves have structures like the lamina, midrib, and veins. Flowers are the reproductive structures that help plants sexually reproduce through parts like petals, sepals, stamens, and pistils. Roots absorb water and minerals from soil and come in tap or fibrous types depending on the plant.

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Short Notes Class6 Getting To Know Plants

Plants can be grouped into herbs, shrubs, and trees. Herbs are short with tender stems and are used for flavoring food, medicine, and spirituality. Shrubs have harder but not very thick stems and are taller than herbs. Trees have many branches on a thick brown stem. Leaves are the food factories of plants where photosynthesis occurs. Leaves have structures like the lamina, midrib, and veins. Flowers are the reproductive structures that help plants sexually reproduce through parts like petals, sepals, stamens, and pistils. Roots absorb water and minerals from soil and come in tap or fibrous types depending on the plant.

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Short Notes Getting to know plants


• Plants can be grouped into herbs, shrubs, and trees. Other types of
plants are climbers and creepers.

Herbs A herb is a non-woody plant that


has green and tender stems with
few branches and is usually short

Herbs are short with tender stem

Uses

Herbs have a variety of uses


including adding flavor to food,
providing medicine for diseases
and in some cases even adding a
spiritual touch
Shrubs Stem in shrubs is hard but not
very thick

Shrubs are taller than herbs and


have stems branching out from
the base
Trees A tree is a woody plant that has
many branches on a single stem.

Trees have hard, thick brown stem

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• The plants with weak stem that cannot stand upright and spread on
ground are called creepers. Whereas plants take support on
neighboring structures and climb up are called climbers.

Leaves
Leaves are the structures which develop on branches. These are green
coloured structures rich in chloroplasts. As they have chlorophyll in them,
they are considered to be food factories of the plant. Photosynthesis occurs
in the leaves. Each leaf bears a bud in its axil.

Structure of leaf
leaf base The point of attachment of the leaf to
the node on the stem
petiole Leaf bears a stalk with which it is
attached to the stem
Lamina The flat part of the leaf exposed to
light
Midrib A thin structure which extends from
the leaf base to the tip on the lamina
Veins small thread like structures extend
from the mid rib to the leaf margin.
Veins helps in transportation of food
venation Arrangement of veins on the lamina
of the leaf

Two types of arrangement of veins on the leaf are parallel venation and
reticulate venation.

Functions of Leaf

Photosynthesis takes place in leaves in which they use carbon dioxide and
water in the presence of chlorophyll and sunlight.
Water comes out of leaves in the form of vapour. This is called transpiration.

Roots

Roots absorb water and minerals from the soil. Roots are of two types-tap
root and fibrous root.

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Plants having the reticulate venation have tap roots while plants having the
leaves with parallel venation have fibrous roots.

Flower

Flower is a reproductive structure of the plant. The different parts of a flower


include sepals, petals, stamens and pistil. Flower helps the plant to give rise
to new plants by the process of sexual reproduction.

Parts of flower are

Petals The coloured parts of a flower are


called as petals.
Sepals The green leaf-like parts surrounding
the bud are called the sepals.
Stamens The male reproductive part of a
flower. t carries pollen grains. Parts
of stamen are anther and filament

pistil The female reproductive part of a


flower. It carries ovules. Pistil has
stigma, style and ovary

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