bud variation

noun

1. 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.

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“Bud Sport” - the term is agricultural and means bud mutation or bud variation, for example, a red flowered branch on a white flowering plant - combines poultry netting, coveralls, leather horse bridles, electric wire, pantyhose, plastic toys, doll clothes and a stuffed toy.

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In most cases it first arises from seed, but with the plant under notice it appears that it was what is called a bud variation, that is, that from some freak of a particular branch of a plant of the well-known A. Thomsonii, the ordinary single flowers were found to be double.

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This new addition, unlike the old, which was another "bud variation," was secured by a cross between the old B. leiantha, scarlet with a single flower, and Alfred Neuner, double white.

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Achillea millefolium, bud variation in, i.

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If there is bud variation we hope that we will have at least some grafts of the superior Fox nuts.

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