Gartner, Inc. (www.gartner.com) defines TCO as the total cost of using and maintaining an IT investment over time. TCO calculations include a combination of direct costs (hardware, software, operations and administration) and indirect costs (end-user operations and downtime).
Cone Function. Each coniferous tree produces both male and female cones. Male cones are much smaller and less showy than their female counterparts. During spring, pollen produced from the male cones is carried by the wind through the female cones fertilizing their egg cells and prompting them to produce seeds.dentification. Seeds are found in both coniferous and flowering plants. They range widely in size, from tiny, barely visible grains to large, bulbous nodules two inches or more in length. Seeds can be firm and fleshy, rough and woody, or hard and smooth.
Best Answer: Reading some arbitrary definition of a crystal might get confusing so I'll simplify it. What you are thinking of are the chemical compound called calcium oxalate.They form needle shaped crystals in a plant cell's vacuole that pretty much look like toothpicks. Their main function is to protect the plant from herbivores.They aren't chemically poisonous but because of their shape, they can prick soft tissue.hen an herbivore eat a part of the plant, the vacuoles are smashed up and these needle like crystals are exposed along with the sap of the plant. Perhaps you've been exposed to these crystals when you squeeze a part of a plant and touch its sap.