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What are the structures and functions of plants roots?

Plants roots that are above ground are called aerial roots. Examples are some types of orchids, mangroves, and banyon trees.


How do plants get water from their environment?

The water moves into transport tissue/tubes in the roots called xylem if the plant is vascular. Nonvascular plants have no xylem. Water moves from cell to cell in nonvascular plants. In both cases, the type of movement is called osmosis.


What plant has no roots?

AnswerMoss has no roots.Mosses are small green plants growing in dense clusters in damp, shady places. Mosses are a type of plant called a bryophyte. Bryophytes are structurally the simplest of all land plants. A moss plant body has no roots and has tiny cellular threads that serve as anchors called rhizoids.Also, parasitic plants have no roots. like misltoe...


What are plants that have tubes as roots called?

It's either tubers or rhizomes. Tubers have starch filled roots, like potatoes, which I guess you can call tube shaped. Or you mean rhizomes, tubular roots that result in another, cloned, plant. Like the raspberry bush in my garden that has sent out roots to grow another plant right in the middle of our lawn...


What are epiphytic roots?

Epiphytic roots are specialized roots found on plants that grow above the ground, without needing soil. These roots help the plant attach to trees or rocks, absorb moisture from the air, and sometimes collect nutrients. Epiphytic plants are commonly found in tropical forests.

Related Questions

What are the structures and functions of plants roots?

Plants roots that are above ground are called aerial roots. Examples are some types of orchids, mangroves, and banyon trees.


Why are the roots of orchids called aerial roots?

Because orchids are designed to be an aerial type of plants


What are vascular plants that do not have true roots called?

If I remember right the fact that its a vascular plant means that it also has roots along with xylem and phloem. So if it doesnt have roots its not a vascular plants.


What are roots that take moisture out of the air for survival called?

The roots that take moisture out of the air for survival are called aerial roots. The roots are usually found above the ground so as to be able to perform their function.


What are plants that grow from roots called?

they are called vines and root crops like camote:)


What are the bumps called that fix nitrogen on the roots of certain plants?

These bumps are called nodules


What plants that grow deep roots to find water are called?

Mesqite.


Open and faces upwind with you-shaped blowout anchors plants?

They are called roots.


What is water is transported from a plants roots to its leaves in a tissue called?

answer is the vascular system


What are the roots that grow high above the soil in mangrove plants called?

aerial roots - See related links to read about stilt-roots, pneumatophores, root knees, and plank roots.


What are plants that lack true stems roots and leaves are called?

Plants that lack true stems, roots, and leaves are called thallophytes. These plants have a simple structure without distinct organs like stems and leaves. Examples include algae and fungi.


What are the sites of cell growth in plants called?

They are called meristems or apical meristems when they are located at the tips of roots.