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caudex
[ kaw-deks ]
noun
Botany.
plural caudices caudexes.
- the main stem of a tree, especially a palm or tree fern.
- the woody or thickened persistent base of an herbaceous perennial.
caudex
/ ˈɔːɛ /
noun
- the thickened persistent stem base of some herbaceous perennial plants
- the woody stem of palms and tree ferns
caudex
/ ô′ĕ′ /
- The thickened, usually underground base of the stem of many perennial herbaceous plants, from which new leaves and flowering stems arise.
- The trunk of a palm or tree fern.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of caudex1
C19: from Latin
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She loves caudiciform succulents — plants that have an above-soil round caudex — and designs squat planters that highlight the plant’s swollen stem.
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The word code comes from the Latin caudex, the wooden pith of a tree on which scribes carved their writing.
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June–Aug.—Plant raised on its prolonged caudex when growing in water.
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The stem is short or entirely wanting, arising from a long and thick caudex.
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Some sorts, the present one included, are not very readily propagated, as the crowns are not on separate pieces of root, but often crowded on a woody caudex.
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