Bud called Rosy is a photograph by Sonali Gangane which was uploaded on January 13th, 2013.
Bud called Rosy
In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of the stem. Once formed, a bud may... more
Title
Bud called Rosy
Artist
Sonali Gangane
Medium
Photograph
Description
In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of the stem. Once formed, a bud may remain for some time in a dormant condition, or it may form a shoot immediately. Buds may be specialized to develop flowers or short shoots, or may have the potential for general shoot development. The term bud is also used in zoology, where it refers to an outgrowth from the body which can develop into a new individual.Buds are often useful in the identification of plants, especially for woody plants in winter when leaves have fallen.[4] Buds may be classified and described according to different criteria: location, status, morphology, and function.
Botanists commonly use the following terms:
for location: terminal, when located at the tip of a stem (apical is equivalent but rather reserved for the one at the top of the plant);
axillary, when located in the axil of a leaf (lateral is the equivalent but some adventitious buds may be lateral too);
adventitious, when occurring elsewhere, for example on trunk or on roots (some adventitious buds may be former axillary ones reduced and hidden under the bark, other adventitious buds are completely new formed ones).
for status: accessory, for secondary buds formed besides a principal bud (axillary or terminal);
resting, for buds that form at the end of a growth season, which will lie dormant until onset of the next growth season;
dormant or latent, for buds whose growth has been delayed for a rather long time. The term is usable as a synonym of resting, but is rather employed for buds waiting undeveloped for years, for example epicormic buds;
pseudoterminal, for an axillary bud taking over the function of a terminal bud (characteristic of species whose growth is sympodial: terminal bud dies and is replaced by the closer axillary bud, for examples beech, persimmon, Platanus have sympodial growth).
for morphology: scaly or covered, when scales (which are in fact transformed and reduced leaves) cover and protect the embryonic parts;
naked, when not covered by scales;
hairy, when also protected by hairs (it may apply either to scaly or to naked buds).
Thanks for viewing.2013©Sonali T. Gangane
Uploaded
January 13th, 2013
