Preliminary Course
Botany. Architectural Analysis
Plant organization
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When observing a plant we can very easily recognize some of its constitutive elements.
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The lowest fundamental structural unit of the plant body is the phytomer.
Successive phytomers derived from a given meristem build an axis carrying leaves: the leafy axis.
Sets of leafy axes develop, with the branching process, into a branched system.
When the tree reaches maturity, the branched system is replicated by a reiteration process, building the whole tree.