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leaf blade

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Noun1.leaf bladeleaf blade - especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
foliage, leaf, leafage - the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

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In nursery crops, the disease impacts leaves—showing up as dark grey-to-brown lesions with indistinct edges that appear on the leaf blade, vascular tissue or petiole.
She quickly decided that the petioles, the little stems that connect a leaf blade to a twig, looked most promising as a source of unspecialized tissue.
August Chadwich of Woodland Hills writes with the following question: ``Does watering indoor plants from above with a watering can (as opposed to soaking water up from below), contribute to the ends of the plants' leaf blades turning brown and drying up?
 
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