Vegetative
45-Palmately compound
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In a palmately compound leaf, the leaflets all diverge from the tip of the petiole, like the fingers on a hand, and there is no rachis. A familiar example is the leaf of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum ). These leaves are also oppositely arranged. |