budwood

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A piece of stem with buds that you join to another plant

noun
/ˈbʌdˌwʊd/

Specialized

: madera de yema

Using healthy budwood from a disease-resistant variety ensures that the new plants will thrive.

Examples

Ledbetter aims to have an initial supply of Helena budwood available to other growers—and backyard gardeners—by early 1995.

Academic text (1994)
After preparing the budwood, he inserted it into the prepared host tree to initiate the grafting process.
With apples, much more of the budwood survives dehydration, explains Lamboy, so it can be cut and budded onto rootstock.

Academic text (1999)
The trees, as well as their seeds, budwood, and pollen, serve as valuable germplasm—plant tissue containing the essential genetic information needed to start new citrus plants.

Academic text (2005)
The gardener carefully selected a piece of budwood to graft onto the rootstock for better growth.

Surface Forms

budwood singular

budwoods plural

Morphology

budwood = bud + wood (transparent) = bud + wood

A straightforward compound of 'bud' + 'wood', meaning a piece of woody stem bearing buds used for grafting.

Etymology

Budwood is a simple compound of bud ('a small new leaf or flower') and wood ('the hard stem of a plant'), so it literally names a piece of stem that has buds. That's why budwood means a piece of plant stem used to join onto another plant by grafting and to grow a new plant.