Monocots and dicots. Those are words most of us haven't heard since high school biology days, if we even heard them at all. But now, a walk through the spring woods will thrust a common monocot ...

Distinguishing monocots from dicots. Examine the leaf vein structure. Veins on monocots either run down the entire length of the leaf or run parallel away from the mid-rib.

Indeed, many experts viewed monocot grafting as a near-impossible feat 2, 3, often attributing failure to anatomical differences between monocots and dicots, especially monocots’ lack of a ...

Sherwin Carlquist, Monocot Xylem Revisited: New Information, New Paradigms, Botanical Review, Vol. 78, No. 2 (1 June 2012), pp. 87-153 Free online reading for over 10 million articles Save and ...