ABSTRACT

D Deciduous – Dying back; seasonal shedding of leaves or other structures;falling off. Decumbent – Lying flat, or being prostrate, but with the tip growing upwards. Dentate – Toothed, with outwardly projecting teeth. Denticulate – Finely toothed. Diffuse – loosely spreading. Dioecious – Only one sex in a plant; with male or female flowers only. Disk – (disc) – A flattened enlargement of the receptacle of a flower or inflorescence; the head of tubular flowers, as in sunflower. Dissected – Divided into many segments. Drupe – A fruit with a fleshy or pulpy outer part and a bone-like inner part; a single seeded fleshy fruit. Can with or without seeds Druplet – A small drupe, as one section of a blackberry.