Question

An axillary bud
A) Is capable of forming a flower
B) Can form a branch
C) Is always in the axil of leaf
D) More than one option is correct

Answer 1

In plants, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot that normally occurs in the axil of a leaf of at the tip of the stem. Buds may be developed into a flower or short shoot.

Complete answer:
The axillary bud is also called the lateral bud.Axillary bud is an embryonic or organogenic shoot which is located into the axils of the leaf.Each bud has a potential to develop into the shoot.The shoot developed from the bud may be vegetative shoot or reproductive shoot.Vegetative shoot include stems and branches and reproductive shoot include flowers.When a bud is formed, it remain dormant for sometime, after that it may form a shoot immediately.An axillary bud arrises exogenously from the outer layer of the cortex part of the stem.Axillary buds show strong apical dominance.Apical dominance is the tendency to grow just terminal buds on the main stem.A most common example of axillary bud is the eyes of the potato.As we have seen in the above discussion that an axillary bud is capable of forming a flower, it can also form a branch and it is found in the axil of the leaf. So, all the options are correct.

Hence, the correct answer is option ‘D’.

Note: Axillary buds can be used to differentiate if the plant is single leafed or multi-leafed. For this one has to count the number of leaves after an axillary bud. If there is only one leaf then the plant is single leafed and if there are more than one leaves then the plant is considered as multi leafed.