Abstract
Most apical resting buds of Choisya tenata include inflorescence buds in the axils of their lower consecutive paired scales. These inflorescences develop as apical buds which burst in spring. The whole of the lateral inflorescence system on a shoot originating from an apical bud may be viewed as a single, proliferous inflorescence. After the spring flush there are usually two other flushes of the same shoot within the same season, each of which may be accompanied by the development of lateral inflorescences as in the spring flush. Each further flush produces an apical ‘lammas shoot’. As an apical lammas shoot elongates, lateral lammas shoots may also develop from upper, previously resting, axillary buds on the underlying stem segment of the preceding flush. Lateral inflorescences on apical lammas shoots arise from axillary buds preformed within the briefly-dormant apical buds terminating the preceding flush. These inflorescences, as well as the spring ones, represent proleptic shoots. The production of resting apical buds between two intra-season flushes of a shoot may be fugacous, without the differentiation of perfect bud-scales, and with curtailmenl ol internode elongation. As no environmental influence seems to be responsible for intra-season rhythmicity in development, this is said to be endorhythmic. The interrelations of proleptic to sylleptic shoots are discussed.
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