Rosette (botany) arrangement has been confirmed to improve survival, help water balance, or protect the plant from cold injury are "Espeletia schultzii" and "Espeletia timotensis", both from the Andes. The rosette form is the structure, the relationship of the parts, and the variations within it, as shown in the following study from a herbarium: As form then, "rosette" is used to describe plants that perpetually grow as a rosette and the immature stage of plants such as some ferns. Rosette (botany) In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves. In flowering plants, rosettes usually sit
Plant life-form or tree. Conversely, unrelated species may share a life-form through convergent evolution. While taxonomic classification is concerned with the production of natural classifications (being natural understood either in philosophical basis for pre-evolutionary thinking, or phylogenetically as non-polyphyletic), plant-life form classifications uses other criteria than naturalness, like morphology, physiology and ecology. "Life-form" and "growth-form" are essentially synonymous concepts, despite attempts to restrict the meaning of growth-form to types differing in shoot architecture. Most life form schemes are concerned with vascular plants only. "Plant construction types" may be used in a broader sense to encompass "planktophytes", "benthophytes" (mainly algae) and terrestrial plants.