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Horticulture Exam Chapter 19 Give five examples of horticultural professions regulated by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. - Answer- Arborist Retail florist Wholesale florist Horticulturist Landscape architect Landscape contractor Utility arborist In order to obtain a license, a landscape contractor must ___ and ___ - Answer- Pass the state licensing exam Pay an annual fee to the Louisiana Agriculutre and Forestry Commission to maintain this license. ...

Louisiana environmental horticulture industry EXAM STUDY GUIDE A Nursery Sales person must be able to... - Answer- Identify plants by common and scientific, Latin, or botanical names. When do you consider the confusion of the common name "cedar" ? - Answer- When its applied to plants that include: arborvitae, cedar, cypress, false cypress, and junipers The American joint committee on horticultural nomenclature has adopted what? - Answer- Standardized plant names, a diction...

The Louisiana Manual for the Environmental Horticulture Industry What is the difference between a cultivar and variety? - Answer- Variety: evolutionary, naturally created in nature Cultivar: agro-technical, created by human Who is Linnaeus? What system of naming plants did he create? - Answer- A swedish botanist from the 1700s credited for creating the binomial system of nomenclature Why is it important to know common and scientific names of plants? - Answer- To be able to ...

Louisiana Landscape Horticulture A-M Acid Soil - Answer- Soil with a pH of less than 7.0. Agricultural lime is used to raise the pH and correct a very acid soil condition. Acre - Answer- A land containing 43,560 square feet and measuring approximately 210' x 210' square Actual - Answer- The part of the formula of any product, containing several ingredients, which refers to a specific ingredient. For example, a 5-pound box of a general purpose plant food (10-10-10) would ha...

Louisiana Horticulture Study Guide 11-20-23 Linneaus - Answer- developed binomial nomenclature binomial nomenclature - Answer- Classification system in which each species is assigned a two-part scientific name cultivar - Answer- special group that retain their distinguishing features when propagated variety - Answer- naturally occurring subgroup within species importance of proper naming of plants - Answer- customer protection, legal requirements, communication...

Louisiana landscape Horticulture state exam Cultivars - Answer- designates a special group of plants, may differ in growth habit, season of maturity, fruit, color, shape root systems - Answer- taproot and fibrous function of root system - Answer- absorption, anchorage, conduction, storage taproot - Answer- grows directly downward stems - Answer- support, conduction, storage conduction - Answer- movement of water, mineral solutions, and substances manufac...

Louisiana Landscape Horticulture Contractor Six legs attached to thorax. Head, thorax, abdomen. One pair of antennae. One or two pairs of wings. - Answer- List key identifying characteristics of insects - Answer- What is the fertilizer equation Head, thorax, abdomen - Answer- What are an insects three body regions? Chewing (with strong mandibles), sucking (like a butterfly proboscis), piercing-sucking (like aphids) - Answer- What are the three different types of ins...

Louisiana Horticulture License Review A plant's scientific name of a plant is composed of _________ and _________. - Answer- genus and species Alba is a term that describes a plant as _________. - Answer- white Triacanthos describes a plant that is _________. - Answer- three spined The functions of the root system are: - Answer- anchorage, absorption, conduction and storage The tap root could be described as: - Answer- a fleshy food storing organ When a pe...

Louisiana Horticulture Test Study Guide What is the difference between a cultivar and variety? - Answer- Cultivar- A plant or grouping of plants selected for desirable characteristics that can be maintained by propagation Variety- A naturally occurring subgroup of a species which has some distinguishing characters Who is Linnaeus? What system of naming plants did he create? - Answer- Linnaeus is a Swedish Botanist who developed the Binomial System of Nomenclature(Genus + Species...

Louisiana Horticulture Exam 2024 4 major plant parts include - Answer- roots stems leaves reproductive parts 4 functions of the root system include - Answer- absorption anchorage conduction storage 2 kind of root systems found in plants are - Answer- fibrous root systems and taproot systems Fibrous root system - Answer- root system that consists of numerous multi-branched roots that are slender; no one root is more prominent than the other. Tap root syst...