- image:dandilion plant. jpg , a
rosette of
leaves at the base of a
dandelion image:agave americana4. jpg ,
rosette of
leaves of
agave - body forms:
first is the
rosulate form,
which is
perennial .
rosulates are made up of a
basal rosette of leaves.
flower stems sprout from
- they are
rosulate (forming a rosette). the
blade margins can be entire,
serrate or dentate. the stem
internodes lack firmness.
- the
leaves have
triangular to d-shaped
petioles 2–9 cm long, are rosulate, 10–26 cm wide, 35-89 cm long. the
leaves exhibit a
scalariforme -
basal leaves rosulate,
often persisting, petiolate; leaf
blade filiform to linear,
rarely linear-oblanceolate, 1.5-8 cm × 1-2(-5) mm,
-
branches grey, tortuous, bare save near the
apices (more
leafy in cultivation)
leaves alternate, not rosulate, sessile, glabrous, linear-
- a non-monophyletic
group of the
remaining genera alooideae are
mainly rosulate leaf
succulents ,
while the
other genera are non-succulent.
-
arrangement on the stem:
rosulate –
leaves form a
rosette rows - the term 'distichous'
literally means '2 rows'.
leaves in this
arrangement -
plant habit :
rosulate –
arranged into a rosette.
runner – an elongated,
slender branch that
roots at the
nodes or tip.
stolon – a
branch 
