Lets learn some interesting terminology regarding tree habits.
Trees are the biggest plants with prominent woody trunks which usually give rise to branches above.
Among them include following:
(1) Caudex: Usually does not branch at all. The lateral buds on the tall columnar trunk are dormant or dead. On the top there is a crown of leaves. This is the habit of Palms. They may branch only abnormally. An unbranched stem like this may also be called columnar. (Fig. 87)
(2) Excurrent : In this the main stem grows indefinitely and the side branches develop in a strict acropetal order e.g. Polyalthia logifolia (Ashoka tree or Mast tree), Casuarina and Pine.
(3) Deliquescent : In this the tree is weaker than the strong lateral buds and very often, it is destroyed at some phase of its life so that the tree has a spreading habit as in banyans and many common trees. (Fig. 89.)
Trees are the biggest plants with prominent woody trunks which usually give rise to branches above.
Among them include following:
(1) Caudex: Usually does not branch at all. The lateral buds on the tall columnar trunk are dormant or dead. On the top there is a crown of leaves. This is the habit of Palms. They may branch only abnormally. An unbranched stem like this may also be called columnar. (Fig. 87)
(2) Excurrent : In this the main stem grows indefinitely and the side branches develop in a strict acropetal order e.g. Polyalthia logifolia (Ashoka tree or Mast tree), Casuarina and Pine.
(3) Deliquescent : In this the tree is weaker than the strong lateral buds and very often, it is destroyed at some phase of its life so that the tree has a spreading habit as in banyans and many common trees. (Fig. 89.)
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