Leaf Shape and Arrangement Treehugger / Hilary Allison Studying leaf shape and the arrangement of leaves on a stem is the most common way of identifying a tree in the field during the growing season.

Leaf size and venation show remarkable diversity across dicotyledons, and are key determinants of plant adaptation in ecosystems past and present. Here we present global scaling relationships of ...

The leaves of extant terrestrial plants show highly diverse and elaborate patterns of leaf venation. One fundamental feature of many leaf venation patterns, especially in the case of angiosperm leaves ...

Improving plants: New software quantifies leaf venation networks, enables plant biology advances Date: January 15, 2011 Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Research News Summary: Plant ...