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different long-shoots and short-shoots (
brachyblasts). Long-shoot
leaves are soon deciduous, but
brachyblasts form in the leaf
axils and from them grow...
- Spurs, or
brachyblasts, are short, slow
growing stems with
greatly shortened internodes that can bear leaves,
flowers and fruit.
Spurs are
perennial growths...
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nemorosus retain stomata. The
areoles of
Rhodocactus species can form "
brachyblasts",
called "spur shoots" by Beat Leuenberger. The
areole initially forms...
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members of
family Didiereaceae, the
leaves of Alluaudia,
produced from
brachyblasts similar to the
areoles found in cacti, are small,
appear single and are...
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branchlets or
brachyblasts,
which produce leaves. The
Andean clade consists of
climbers or
undershrubs with
smaller flowers and does not form
brachyblasts. In 2013...
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including A.
confusa Ulibarri, a
distinctive plant with
flowers over
brachyblasts. The
flowers of A.
microphylla appear over spines. As
livestock forage...
- uni- and multi-seriate,
branches clearly differentiated in
unifoliate brachyblasts and
macroblasts with
distichous phyllotaxis (Tetracentron), with nodes...
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Brachyblasts (shoots) grow in the leaf
axils of the
secondary branches.
These typically grow up to 5 mm (0.20 in) long and
secondary brachyblasts are...
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millimetres (24 in).
Inflorescences are
terminal on
short lateral shoots (
brachyblasts);
racemes pendent with a 510
millimetres (20 in)-long peduncle. The flowers...
- trunk. The
areoles can have one to
three or
occasionally four
leaves (
brachyblast leaves) in
addition to spines. The
spines range from
black to brown,...
