Bud Anatomy		hi-res links (requires broadband)
Curtis, Lersten, and Nowak 2002 rev. 2015

Pinus banksiana (jack pine) terminal and lateral long branch buds.

Pinus banksiana (jack pine) terminal long branch bud with immature long branch bud and many dwarf branch buds.

Pinus banksiana (jack pine) terminal long branch bud with many branch buds.

Pinus banksiana (jack pine) terminal long branch bud and many staminate cones at time of pollen release.

Pinus banksiana (jack pine) terminal long branch bud and many staminate cones just before pollen release.

Pinus banksiana (jack pine) terminal long branch bud and ovulate cones that have been pollinated.

Pinus banksiana (jack pine) terminal long branch bud with elongating internodes. It is unusual for ovulate and staminate cones to be on the same branch end.

Pinus bungeana (lacebark pine) with unusual enlarged persistent cataphylls.

Diagram of dissected Populus deltoides (cottonwood) false terminal bud. Curtis and Lersten. 1974. Amer. J. Bot. 62: 836.

Populus deltoides (cottonwood): developing false terminal bud.

Populus deltoides (cottonwood) terminal bud cross section with stipules (undulated inner surface) and immature leaf blades.

Populus deltoides (cottonwood) bud cross section showing adaxial secretory surface of stipules.

Populus deltoides (cottonwood) immature leaf cross section.