bud variation

noun

any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.

Several varieties, even when propagated by tubers, are far from constant, as will be seen in the chapter on Bud-variation.

This same peach has likewise produced by bud-variation the early grosse mignonne.

Some few of our most beautiful and useful productions have arisen by bud-variation.

This chapter will be chiefly devoted to a subject in many respects important, namely, bud-variation.

The Boston nectarine, which appeared as a bud-variation, produced by seed a closely allied nectarine.

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