Types of stems

Classification of a stem

Herbaceous stems:

They do not have developed ligneous stiffened structures. They are generally frail. We find them in plants like the following:

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Annual plants: Plants with a year life-time. Weeds generally belong to this group.

Vivacious plants: Plants with aerial stems lasting a single season, but keeping underground structures from which new stems spring again next seas on.

tiges herbacies

tiges vivacies

Ligneous stems:

They have developed rigid, stiffened structures, what we normally know as “wood”. According to the height they attain we classify them into:

Trees: Plants with ligneous stems, with a superior height of five meters. In this case we call the stems trunks. They do not generally branch up to a considerable distance from the soil.

More information about trees / Fruit trees/ How to plant a tree

tree stems

Shrubs: Are those plants with ligneous stems, from one to five meters tall. In this case, branching begins at soil level.

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Bushes: Ligneous plants shorter than one meter tall.

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Characteristics of the stemGo back to main page “The stems”

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Vicente Martínez Centelles
Written by Vicente Martínez Centelles Founder of the web and director. Teacher of natural sciences, expert in plants, natural remedies and botanical photography.

22 December, 2020

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