What Affects the Life of A Cut Plant?
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The way it is treated will affect its life. Should you place the stem in a polystyrene cube, floating in a tank of aerated water, stocked with nutrients and maintained at 26 degrees celsius, you would begin generating a healthy "clone" of the original plant within three weeks.
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Actually, transpiration is the evaporation of water from leaves.  Guttation is a visible secretion of fluid from the leaves.\n\nMost of the water lost from a leaf goes through the stomata when the stomata are open.  The stomates open in order to allow CO2 into the leaf.  The stomates are controlled by conditions within the leaf.  \n\nThe cutin is a protective layer over the epidermis that prevents water loss.  The plant would have no control of the rate of transpiration if it only relied on the cutin.
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Well it depends if you microwave it then water the plant while it is still hot then yea it will kill the plant, the hot water will kill the plant you will scalded the rotes. But if you zap it then let it cool it would be just like any other cool water. As long as the plant is getting the other nurturance and light it needs it will have no affect at all.
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I like Katie's answer...very thorough...sounds like one of my lectures in my college Botany class...also.....due to chemical changes in the leaves and the slowing of the nutrient flow in the tree/leaves fall off due to the formation of an abscission layer of corky material  at the base of the leaf stem or petiole where it attaches to the tree twig. Cutting off water/food and it drys and weakens the attachment, then with a gust of wind shaking it loose to give us some work to rake them up.....oak trees hold tenaciously to their leaves and are often seen with some of their dry browned leaves on them throughout the winter......
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I've included a couple links with info; you can try continual chopping it back, but be very careful as the plant's sap may be more dangerous to you than a pesticide.
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I remember a girl in the news who ended up inhaling a piece of the X'nas tree and ended up getting a horrid asthma attack.  For years she lived with it until she was operated on about 10 years later.  After extracting the snall twig the leaf parts still had chlorophyll in it.
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A  Epidermis \n\nThe blade consists of an upper and lower epidermis and a spongy layer of tissue, called the mesophyll. Running through the mesophyll is a branching system of veins.\n\nThe epidermis is the leaf blade's skin. It is a thin, usually transparent, colorless layer of cells that covers both the upper and lower surfaces of the blade. The epidermis prevents the leaf from losing excessive amounts of water and protects it against injury.\n\nIn most plants the epidermis is covered with cutin, a waxy substance secreted by the epidermal cells. The layer of cutin, called the cuticle, is responsible for the glossy appearance of some leaves. The cuticle gives the leaf additional protection by slowing down the rate at which water is lost. Generally, the cuticle is thinner on the epidermis on the underside of the leaf than on the upper epidermis, which is exposed to the sun.\n\nIn many kinds of leaves, hairs grow from the epidermis. The soft hairs of plants such as the mullein give the leaves a woolly or feltlike texture. In some plants the epidermal hairs secrete fluids. For example, in geraniums and petunias the hairs secrete a fluid that gives the leaves a clammy texture. The strong-smelling oils of the peppermint and spearmint plants come from epidermal hairs. In other plants, such as the nettle, the epidermal hairs are stiff and contain a poisonous fluid that produces a skin irritation when a person is pricked by them.\n\nB  Guard Cells \n\nScattered throughout the epidermis are pairs of bean-shaped cells, called guard cells. Guard cells contain chloroplasts, which are tiny granules filled with the green pigment chlorophyll. Chlorophyll gives leaves their characteristic green color. Chloroplasts enable leaves to carry on photosynthesis because they are able to absorb carbon dioxide and sunlight, which are required for the food-making process. In response to heat and light, each pair of guard cells pulls apart, and a tiny pore forms between them. The pores, called stomata, open to the outside atmosphere.\n\nWhen the stomata are open, carbon dioxide and oxygen pass either in or out—when carbon dioxide enters, it takes part in photosynthesis, the food-making process that releases oxygen as a waste product. This oxygen passes out of the leaf. At the same time, oxygen also enters the leaf, where it takes part in respiration, a process that forms carbon dioxide as a waste product. This carbon dioxide passes out through the stomata. Water also passes out of the open stomata in the form of a vapor. This process is called transpiration. Generally, there are more stomata on the under surface of a leaf than on the upper surface. This prevents water from evaporating too quickly or in excessive amounts from the leaf's upper side, which is exposed to the sun. Stomata close at night, providing another level of water conservation.\n\nC  Water Pores \n\nIn addition to the stomata, many kinds of leaves have large specialized water pores in their epidermis. These pores, called hydathodes, permit guttation, the process by which a plant loses liquid water. Unlike the stomata, hydathodes remain open all the time.\n\nGuttation takes place only when water is being rapidly absorbed by the roots, such as after a heavy rainfall, and when transpiration slows down, as on cool, humid nights. When these conditions occur together, droplets of water can be seen on the leaf early in the morning before they evaporate in the heat of the day. Unlike dew, which condenses on leaves from water vapor in the air and covers the entire leaf surface, guttation droplets form only on the edges and tips of leaves. Generally, the droplets are noticeable only on the leaves of strawberries and a few other kinds of plants.\n\nD  Mesophyll \n\nThe mesophyll, sandwiched between the upper and lower epidermis, consists of many thin-walled cells that are usually arranged in two layers. The palisade layer is next to the upper epidermis. It consists of cylindrical cells t
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I dont agree with the first two answers, just because the plants dont get pollinated it doesnt mean they will die, they just will not be able to reproduce. \nIf all animals die, there will be a major disruption in 2 main cycles that could affect the ecology. The Nitrogen cycle, and the CO2 cycle. \n\nPlants use Carbondioxide for photosynthesis and give off oxygen.. where animals use oxygen and give off carbondioxide. any instability in this cycle would have detrimental effects.\n\nNitrogen cycle.. ammonia based compounds in the soil mostly from animal waste are converted into nitrites and nitrates by specific bacteria  so that they are absorbed by the plants...without animals, there would be a major imbalance.
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Hey \n  every year i do a science fair project on plants and last year i learned how it happens.  First of all it is called absorbtion  Next, the water is sucked up by the ruts when the plant is looking for nutrients. then it takes the water to a different part of the (stomach) of the plant and it eats the water.\n  Hope i helped
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The leaves of a plant play an important role in the plant. The leaves capture sunlight and use it along with carbon dioxide to produce food for the plant. Tthe process gives off oxygen. The leaves also store the food for future uses. The leaves have stomata for the escape of the not needed oxygen.
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The reaction to music is an odd one. The "Mythbusters" did a segment on it once. It seemed that the more SOUND a plant recieved usually resulted in more growth. Therefore, yes music does affect plants.
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It will live as long as you keep it healthy.  Spider plants propate by sending out those little shooters.  Even as one part of the plant dies back, the new and younger parts will grow and replace it.  It will only die if you don't take care of it.  My mother has a spider plant that she has had for probably 25 years... she's actually made several new ones from the shooters off of the original.  :)
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Uncut vegetables are able to resist water loss because of their thick skin (cuticle) and axy coating.\n\nIf you cut vegetables, they will rapidly dry out in the air. If you place them in water, then they are coated with water and no evaporataion takes place.\n\nBecause plant cells have a cell wall and cellulose unless the cell wall is damaged they will remain isolated from the water and only small amounts of water will shift. Ionically the internal salt content of the cells in most vegetables will be at balance with the source water.If you added salt  you would notice an osmotic change as they vegetables would loose water to balance this ionic difference.\nBut plain old tap water is about what the osmality of the typical plant cell is at and it can remain that way safely for some time.
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When the leaf is alive, it will take the light by absorbing it with the clorophile. This is esential to continue with the process, for that is the moment when the plant takes its energy for the creation of new compounds.\nBy removing it, you're preventing it from using any more energy from the outside to create organic compounds, thus leaving the leaf useless to do photosyntesis.\nWhen you boil the leaf, you're raising the temperature of it. By doing so, you're breaking up the structure of the clorophile, and destroying it.
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Dude / dudette.\n\nCheck your local search engine.\n\nWatch a plant in your garden, for gawdsakes.  Plants wilt without water, so it's a fair bet that water fills the cells - perhaps the cell walls?\n\nHere's a passage ripped off from a website:\n\nWater acts as a SOLVENT for minerals and stored food that must be moved through the plant. Water evaporation on the leaf surface helps cool the plant during very hot weather in the same way that perspiration keeps us cool. \n\nPlants even require water during winter. Water is absorbed through and stored in roots for winter. When soil is frozen, water movement is very restricted. On windy winter days, leaves of broadleaf evergreens, such as rhododendrons, may curl to reduce water loss. Curling reduces the amount of leaf surface exposed to drying winds, reducing evaporation. Continued water loss may cause tissue to die and turn brown. This kind of plant injury is called desiccation. It is critical that broadleaf evergreens have an adequate supply of soil moisture going into winter.
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yes it will in the begining, then it will depend on the water level of the milk and orange juice ,if the soil will get very acidec then it will kill the plant and vice versa this means thet if it gets alkaline then it will kill the plant too.
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Losing any plant can drastically affect the local environment.  Loss of the phlox (which grows on sandy soil) is bound to have serious erosion consequenses as the roots of the phlox bind the soil together.  Insects will lose a source of nectar and so the food chain will suffer further up.  \nYou may find the site belwo of interest...;