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
Nutation (botany) Nutation (botany) Nutation is the bending movements executed by some plant organs, such as stems, leaves, roots, etc., by which the part is inclined successively in various directions. Nutations are due to the unequal rate of growth of different sides of the organ, an inequality which, so far as is known at present (c. 1915), is dependent upon internal (unknown) causes and is not called forth by the action of external stimuli. The word is often used in a broad sense in the phrase "nutational movement", to include all the movements in plants caused by growth in contrast to "variation