[Sca-cooks] bananas are herbs?

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 06:31 PM 2/26/2004, you wrote:

>As I recall, rosemary isn't a woody shrub, its a herbaceous shrub, while
>conifers tend to be woody and cone bearing.  Conifers and rosemary are both
>evergreens,  but the conifers are gymnosperms while the rosemary is an
>angiosperm.
>
>Bear

Now _I'm_ confused. The rosemary bush out back (roughly the size and shape 
of a 'horta') is pretty woody, especially the older it gets. But could you 
explain 'gymnosperm' and 'angiosperm' for those non-botanists among us?

'Lainie
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