Buds on plants are presented in 2 main varieties - vegetative and generative. What is the specificity of both of their varieties?
What is a vegetative bud?
Any bud is the rudiment of a shoot of a plant. As a rule, it forms in the leaf axil or in the final part of the shoot. Sometimes buds are formed on stems and roots. The vegetative shoot primordium includes the rudimentary stem and leaves.
The plant bud under consideration can form from a dormant bud formed on a tree branch. Shoots grow from the corresponding buds during different stages of the growing season - for example, in spring.
What is a generative kidney?
This type of bud is a shoot rudiment from which flowers and inflorescences of plants grow. In principle, cases of formation of stems or leaves from generative buds are possible (their rudiments are also present in the structure of the corresponding bud of some plants).
Comparison
The main difference between a vegetative bud and a generative bud is that stems and leaves of plants grow from the primordium of the first type, from the rudiment of the second type - flowers or inflorescences.
It should be noted that there are mixed, that is, vegetative-generative buds. As we mentioned above, in the structure of the generative buds of some plants, there are also rudiments of stems and leaves.
Generative buds are usually larger than vegetative buds. Their apex is in many cases more rounded than that of vegetative primordia.
Having determined what is the difference between the vegetative and generative buds, we will reflect the conclusions in the table.
Table
| Vegetative bud | Generative bud |
| What do they have in common? | |
| Many plants have mixed, vegetative-generative buds | |
| What is the difference between them? | |
| Represents the bud from which stems and leaves grow | Represents the bud from which a flower or inflorescence grows |
| Smaller, more pointed | Larger, more rounded |
