Water rice (plant morphology)

As water rice (also fear rice or anxiety engine ) is a scion Denoted after injury or after changing the lighting conditions from a sleeping bud casts in the root area. You can recognize water veins by the often larger and often differently shaped leaves . They often occur in clusters and are seen as a reduction in quality in oaks . Other hardwoods also tend to form water veins, such as poplars , elms , maples and ash trees , but also larches and firs . Thicker branches formed from water veins are called sticky branches .

In fruit growing , the strong, almost vertical shoots are known as water veins or water shoots that develop on the older, more horizontally oriented branches. Depending on their position, these shoots are either left in order to form the new extension of the branch axis after the supporting branch has been lowered (deformation due to fruit hanging), or removed if they would shade and overgrown the interior of the tree. As soon as the orientation of the water rice leaves the vertical, its further behavior changes and it is spoken of fruit rods . This lowering is often caused by the strain on the leaves and fruits; but it can also be achieved by bending and tying down and by attaching weights.

proof

• Schütt, Schuck, Stimm: Lexicon of tree and shrub species . Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-53-8 , pp. 565 .