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Figure 2

Four epicormic types: (A) isolated bud (length: 4 mm), (B) epicormic shoot (length: 10 mm), (C) “picot”(French term) which is a very small stump of a shoot with epicormic buds (length: 5 mm), and (D) cluster of buds where buds were directly inserted on the trunk (length: 4 mm; bud: 1 mm).