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A
seedling is young
plant just after
germination,
and represents the next
growth
phase of the
leaves after the
cotyledons.
The term seedling is also used more loosely to indicate any baby
plant formed
from a seed rather than from a
sprout,
cutting or
other forms of
vegetative propagation, which has not yet attained
flowering
size. A
nursery grown plant which has not been lifted and replanted
in the nursery (see
transplant).
A seedling may be several years
old before it
flowers.
In forestry the term usually used to refer to young
trees grown
from seed, from germination ( the
stage where they have just emerged
from the soil) to the sapling
stage (young tree with single
unbranched
stem)
Left: A
dicotyledonous seedling
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