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    Concolor

    /KON-kol-or/
    🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate

    A color epithet indicating the plant is uniformly colored — both surfaces of a leaf are the same color, contrasting with discolor (different surfaces). Appears as concolor (both genders).

    Etymology

    From Latin concolor, meaning "of the same color," from con- (same) + color (color).

    Example

    Abies concolor (white fir) has leaves nearly the same blue-green color on both surfaces — distinctive when compared to other firs whose leaf undersides are conspicuously white-striped.

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