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A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem. The leaves and stem together form the shoot.Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves collectively.
Typically a leaf is a thin, dorsiventrally flattened organ, borne above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Most leaves have distinctive upper (adaxial) and lower (abaxial) surfaces that differ in colour, hairiness, the number of stomata (pores that intake and output gases) and other features. In most plant species, leaves are broad and flat. Such species are referred to as broad-leaved plants. Many gymnosperm species have thin needle-like leaves that can be advantageous in cold climates frequented by snow and frost. Leaves can also have other shapes and forms such as the scales in certain species of conifers. Some leaves are not above ground (such as bulb scales). Succulent plants often have thick juicy leaves, but some leaves are without major photosynthetic function and may be dead at maturity, as in some cataphylls, and spines). Furthermore, several kinds of leaf-like structures found in vascular plants are not totally homologous with them. Examples include flattened plant stems (called phylloclades and cladodes), and phyllodes (flattened leaf stems), both of which differ from leaves in their structure and origin. Many structures of non-vascular plants, and even of some lichens, which are not plants at all (in the sense of being members of the kingdom Plantae), look and function much like leaves. The primary site of photosynthesis in most leaves (palisade mesophyll) almost always occurs on the upper side of the blade or lamina of the leaf but in some species, including the mature foliage of Eucalyptus palisade occurs on both sides and the leaves are said to be isobilateral.
Actors: Mirja Oksanen (actress), Anna Maria Pie (actress), Frans Isotalo (actor), Jussi Wahlgren (actor), David Gelkin (actor), Jan Korander (actor), Greta Mandelin (actress), Alina Tomnikov (actress), Marko Loukaskorpi (actor), Erik Mashkilleyson (actor), Sebastian Sonck (actor), Timo Kervinen (actor), Tommi Honkanen (actor), Janina Mattsoff (actor), Maria Nieminen (actress),
Plot: In 1951 a small Northern European Nation established a television directorate. Its charter was to provide the people with the finest quality programming that would both entertain and inform. The legislation included a provision to levy a small annual permit fee to all operators of television receivers. Today it is up to a small group of dedicated professionals to ensure everyone pays their fair share. They are the T.V. Permit Inspectors and this is their story.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jim Westcott (actor), Jennifer Prettyman (producer), Jennifer Prettyman (director), Jennifer Prettyman (actress), Kate Cloutier (actress), Casey Millard (actor), Bill Borea (actor), Roxanne Williams (producer), Roxanne Williams (actress), Dan Mundt (miscellaneous crew), Craig Sandberg (composer), Craig Sandberg (actor), Cindy Simmons (actress), Reba (actress), Jesse Meehl (editor),
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Plot: A chicken farmer from middle America wins a vacation for having the "Best Chicken". When Millie arrives at the new-age retreat, she meets lifestyle guru Angelica Lovecraft and her reality TV show producers. Before she knows it, she has accepted their lucrative offer and they arrive at her farm for a week of reality TV programming. While Millie is awfully excited about the show, her husband is much less enthusiastic, the producers are getting antsy and Angelica is getting dramatic. They're going to turn Millie's life, and her chicken farm, upside down.
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Genres: Drama,There was a song,
I almost caught it on the way down.
A leaf in your hand, reaching,
reaching out.
You can press the leaf, and hold it forever.
Or you can leave it in the weeds.
Empty pages in a journal can tell more than any words
were able
when the leaf falls out on the table