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Branching morphology and characteristics
Does anyone know of a term used in botany to define the "trunkness" of
a plant? By trunkness I mean the tendency of a tree's (or other plant's) branches to consist of one main branch which shoots off many smaller branches (e.g. like a tree trunk). Low "trunkness" would be defined as a a tree's tendency for all of it's branching points to lead to similar sized daughter branches, where size is determined by either length or number of subsequent branches each daughter branch leads to. Therefore, most trees would tend to have high "trunkness", and most shrubs would have relatively lower "trunkness". There has to be a better term than "trunkness", though. Thanks, Hos |
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Branching morphology and characteristics
On Jul 16, 2:32 pm, Hosley wrote:
Does anyone know of a term used in botany to define the "trunkness" of a plant? By trunkness I mean the tendency of a tree's (or other plant's) branches to consist of one main branch which shoots off many smaller branches (e.g. like a tree trunk). Low "trunkness" would be defined as a a tree's tendency for all of it's branching points to lead to similar sized daughter branches, where size is determined by either length or number of subsequent branches each daughter branch leads to. Therefore, most trees would tend to have high "trunkness", and most shrubs would have relatively lower "trunkness". There has to be a better term than "trunkness", though. Thanks, Hos I think the answer can be found he http://www.answers.com/topic/stem?cat=health Look under the head "external features" below the "Stem" head. |
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