The ray-pits are small and the spring-shoots are, with two exceptions, multinodal.
Spring-shoots uninodal in some, multinodal in other species.
On multinodal shoots they are often multiserial, appearing on two or more nodes of the same spring-shoot (fig. 33).
On multinodal branchlets the inner nodes bear lateral buds which may be latent.
The perfect multinodal branchlet is formed in the winter-bud (fig. 8-a) and the spring-shoot is multinodal.
The multinodal shoot is never invariable in a species, but is rare, common or prevalent.
Associated with the latter are the persistent cone and the multinodal spring-shoot.
In the Insignes the cone is oblique, persistent and serotinous, and the spring-shoot is multinodal.
nodal nod·al (nōd'l)
adj.
Of, relating to, resembling, being, or situated near or at a node.
