What Is Lateral Branching

A lateral branch is any secondary branch that grows off of the main trunk or scaffolds; all scaffolds are lateral branches that were once thin young twigs on the trunk.

What are the type of branching?

Regular branching allows plants to expand and adapt to the environment. There are two major types of shoot branching: lateral (axillary), which involves the formation of a primordial bud in the organogenic zone of the apex, and terminal (dichotomous), which is an outcome of the meristem bifurcation.

What is a lateral on a plant?

Secondary, or lateral, meristems, which are found in all woody plants and in some herbaceous ones, consist of the vascular cambium and the cork cambium. They produce secondary tissues from a ring of vascular cambium in stems and roots.