Sport (botany) peaches. Other common fruits resulting from a sport mutation are the red Anjou pear and the 'Pink Lemonade' lemon which is a sport of the "Eureka" lemon. Sport (botany) In botany, a sport or bud sport, traditionally called lusus, is a part of a plant that shows morphological differences from the rest of the plant. Sports may differ by foliage shape or color, flowers, or branch structure. Sports with desirable characteristics are often propagated vegetatively to form new cultivars that retain the characteristics of the new morphology. Such selections are often prone to "reversion", meaning that part or all of
Plant life-form plant functional type, which has recently replaced "life-form" in a narrow sense. Following, some relevant schemes. Based on plant habit: Humboldt described 19 (originally 16) "Hauptformen", named mostly after some characteristic genus or family: Based upon the duration of life and the height of the ligneous stem: Based on the place of the plant's growth-point (bud) during seasons with adverse conditions (cold seasons, dry seasons): Vegetation-forms: Main life-forms ("Grundformen") system: Growth-form system: Main groups of plant life forms: Following, other morphological, ecological, physiological or economic categorizations of plants. According to the general appearance (habit): According to leaf hardness, size and