Dictionary pup

(1) Pup [ Botany ]
Adjective: pupping
Synonym: Offset or Offshoot

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"Pup" is a common name used for a young offset or offshoot of any of various plants such as the basal offset of many cacti and the suckers of agaves and aloes.

The "PUP" or offset usually remains connected to the main plant but easily fall off and, taking root and continuing to grow as an individual new plant. Pups are common source for vegetative propagation of plants. (e.g. Echinopsis)

Pups can be detached and used for plant propagation when of a enough large size to be rooted on their own, or uprooted and transplanted.

See also: Offshoot, Sucker

(2) To pup (Intransitive verb pupped, pupping, pups ) [ Botany ]
Synonyms: To offset, To offshoot


	To produce pups (offsets).

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Holdfast roots [ Botany ]
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Some species of climbing plants develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place.

Climbing plants, like the poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), and trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans), develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place. Usually the Holdfast roots die at the end of the first season, but in some species they are perennial. In the tropics some of the large climbing plants have hold-fast roots by which they attach themselves, and long, cord-like roots that extend downward through the air and may lengthen and branch for several years until they strike the soil and become absorbent roots.

Major references and further lectures:
1) E. N. Transeau “General Botany” Discovery Publishing House, 1994