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Vegetative

 29-Bud scales

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On this photo of a winter twig of European beech, Fagus sylvatica.

NOTE:


  • the long and slender buds
  • their alternate arrangement (what would be the arrangement of the leaves?)
  • the many overlapping bud scales
Photo by K. R. Robertson of plants cultivated at the University of Illinois.
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