bud-state

Updated: June 9, 2025

"The root, whatever its origin in any case may be, grows in length only in one way; namely, at a point just behind its very tip. This growing point is usually protected by a peculiar cap, which insinuates its way through the crevices of the soil. If roots should grow as stems escaping from the bud-state do, that is, throughout their whole length they would speedily become distorted.

Jane H. Newell - Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf