### plant part | blossom:

Bud
* Most buds absorb nutrients
  - are also killed, so little new growth is produced on infested branches
  - become flowers
  - come from trees
  - contain flowers
  - fall from plants
* Most buds grow beautiful flowers
* Most buds grow into leaves
  - potato plants
  - shoots
  - on stems
  - have texture
  - make plants
* Most buds produce blossoms
  - inflorescences
  - vegetative shoots
  - promote growth
  - sprout from roots
  - still retain their light or dark red color
* S Collect smaller marginal frond buds from greenhouse plants.
* Some buds appear on asiatic lilies
  - are sharp and hard to the touch
  - become plants
  - contain proteins
* Some buds develop into flowers
  - form both flowers and branches
* Some buds grow buds
  - into fronds
* Some buds have dominance
  - meristems
  - moisture
  - look like tiny stalks
* Some buds produce growth
  - hormones
  - rhizomes
  - stolons
  - various hormones
* Some buds resemble dark green fronds
  - survive unfavorable conditions
* also form in the axils of the leaves ready to produce new side shoots.
* appear as irregularly shaped vegetative masses found at the tip of stems and branches
  - in fall
* appear on the trees and birds begin to build their nests
  - very young plants, flowers open a pretty shade of violet
* are a way to externally protect the precious growing points from damage
  - capable of growing into branches
  - classified by their location on the stem
  - dark, quite small, and have several scales
  - embryonic meristems maintained in a dormant state
  - formed in the marginal basal part of sponge
  - globe-shaped, clustered around the tip of the branch
  - imbricate with many scales
  - immature branches, miniature leaves, or flowers, usually with a protective covering
  - long and pointed, showing light apricot color
  - long, lance-shaped, with numerous brown scales
  - often divergent from the twig
  - ovoid to almost round and covered with hairs
  - pink as the four sepals are pink and are lost when the flower blooms
  - present only at the crown or stem end of the root
* are small and ovoid or conical in outline
  - triangular shaped
  - viscid
  - there if they sit around long enough
  - undeveloped shoots and flowers
  - usually of two distinct sizes and are somewhat angled
* arise from the crown when conditions are favorable and develop into edible spears.
* begin to break, and tiny green leaves unfurl from their winter rest.
* break out on tender twigs.
* consist of a cluster of very small rusty-pubescent leaves.
* develop a protective coating as lower temperatures herald the winter season
  - at the base of the stem and then grow into new plants
* die and plants are stunted.
* dropping off usually indicate rapidly fluctuating temperatures.
* enable pinch and shortleaf pines to recover from injury.
* fail to open and often droop.
* form at the base of leaf stems.
* form in clusters of three
  - the notches of the fertile fronds and produce new plantlets
* give rise to leaves, flowers, or both
  - new shoots, each developing to maturity and flowering
  - bigger, smelling sweet, bees and birds come round to eat
* have few scales
  - overlapping scales
  - similar taste
  - the potential to develop into flowers, leaves, roots, or other stems or branches
  - sections
  - stamens
* linger before becoming leaves and flowers.
* occupy a lateral or terminal position on the stem.
* occur at the base of the leaf petiole and, like the leaves, normally occur in whorls of two.
* only appear on two or three year-old twigs or spurs which are no thicker than a pencil.
* originate at the junction of the stalk and gastric regions.
* rapidly drop from plants without signs of fungal infection.
* reach the size of small peas but fail to develop further.
* remain reddish all winter and open into rosy cerise flowers in great abundance.
* respond obediently after the fall.
* rot or open to distorted, brown-flecked flowers.
* shield and hide new growth and flowers.
* swell and burst, small flowers push up and then the bigger ones jump up.
* tend to ball and fail to open if they are rained on or if the morning dew is too heavy.
* turn brown and decay
  - or black and fail to open, or flowers are brown-spotted, watery, and matted
  - brown, shrivel, and die or produce yellowish leaves
  - dark and drop off
* wrap up the keys to trees' survival.