frutic-, frut-

(Latin: shrub)

frutescent
Becoming shrub-like; fruticose.
frutex (s), frutices (pl)
Shrub.
fruticole (verb), fruticoles; fruticoled; fruticoling: shrubs
Living or growing on shrubs.
fruticose
Like a shrub; especially, as applied to the thallus of certain lichens.

Thallus refers to the body of an organism; such as, an alga or liverwort that is not differentiated into leaves, stems, and roots; that is, without true stems, or roots, or leaves, or a vascular system.

fruticulose
Like a small shrub.
frutification
Any spore-bearing or seed-bearing structure; such as, the aerial fruiting body of a fungus.