All Leaf Shapes
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Acicular
Needle-shaped
Acuminate
Tapering to a long point
Aristate
With a spine-like tip
Cordate
Heart-shaped with stem in cleft
Cuneate
wedge-shaped with acute base
Deltoid
Triangle-shaped
Digitate
With finger-like lobes
Elliptic
oval-shaped with small or no point
Falcate
Sickle-shaped
Flabellate
Fan-shaped
Hastate
Triangular with basal lobes
Lanceolate
Pointed at both ends
Linear
With Elongated parallel margins
Lobed
With Deeply indented margins
Obcordate
Heart-shaped with stem at point
Obovate
Egg shape, narrows at base
Obtuse
Bluntly tipped
Orbicular
Circular-shaped
Ovate
egg-shaped, widens at base
Palmate
Hand-like
Pedate
Palmate, divided lateral lobes
Peltate
Stem attached centrally
Perfoliate
Stem seeming to pierce leaf
Pinnatisect
Deep, opposite lobing
Reniform
Kidney-shaped
Rhomboid
Diamond-shaped
Rosette
Leaflets in tight circular rings
Spatulate
Spoon-shaped
Spear_shaped
Pointed, barbed base
Subulate
Tapering point, awl-shaped
Ternate
Leaflets in threes
Truncate
Squared-off apex
Unifoliate
Having a single leaf
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