Glossary
Areole
Growers describe it as the small felt-covered spot on the rib where spines, flowers, fruit and new branches all come from. New growth can only start at an areole, so the number of areoles on a piece sets the maximum number of new branches it can make, growers say.
Words that go with it
- Mid cutGrowers call it a section taken from the middle of a column, with no growing tip on it.
- "Seagulls over growholes"Growers call it the memory trick for which way up a cutting goes.
- GrowholeGrowers use it as their informal word for the areole — the felted spot the spines come…
- MealybugA sap-sucking pest that looks like small patches of white sticky cotton wool around…
- PupGrowers call it a young plant that sprouts from an areole of a bigger one.
- SpinationA plant's spines taken as one feature — how many come out of each areole, how long they…
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