Claim · model-written summary
Trees ordinarily produce seasonal buds that expand the following spring and often contain the next summer's leaves.
- Taxon
- treee0
- Outcome
- buds which expand in the succeeding springe0
- Qualifier
- contain, in many instances, the whole of the leaves which appear in the following summere0
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Verbatim
e0“Every tree in the ordinary course of its growth generates, in each season, those buds which expand in the succeeding spring; and the buds thus generated, contain, in many instances, the whole of the leaves which appear in the following summer.”
Title
XVII. On the reproduction of buds. In a letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K. B. P. R. S
Thomas Andrew Knight Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1805. doi:10.1098/rstl.1805.0019
Other claims from this paper (2)
- Intervention effect Destroying buds in winter or early spring induces replacement buds in many tree species that perform the original buds' functions but do not produce fruit or flowers.
- Mechanism The author considers the hypothesis that replacement buds originate from pre-organized germs probably erroneous.