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Key Difference: Seedling and sapling are two different juvenile life stages of a tree. Seedling refers to a very young tree which is less than 1 inch in context to DBH (Diameter at Breast Height).
: a young tree before it becomes a sapling. b. : a nursery plant not yet transplanted. seedling adjective. Illustration of seedling. 1 primary root. 2 rootlet. 3 root hairs. 4 hypocotyl. 5 cotyledon. 6 young stem. 7 true leaf. Examples of seedling in a Sentence.
A seedling is a young sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed. A typical young seedling consists of three main parts: the radicle (embryonic root), the hypocotyl (embryonic shoot), and the cotyledons (seed leaves).
I use the term “tree seedling” to refer to both tree and shrub seedlings. I removed studies using exclusively planted seedlings, non-woody seedlings (e.g., herbs, grasses, lianas), and those carried out in greenhouses or nurseries.
A seedling is a tree less than three feet in height. This fact sheet covers obtaining, planting, and caring for small seedling trees and other woody plants. These trees can be sold and planted as bare-root or containerized stock.
Seedlings are the most critical bottleneck in plant recruitment, yet there is no practical and widely accepted denition of what a seedling is. Typically, the end of the seedling stage has been dened as the point when it stops being dependent on seed resources, or at the point of maximum growth rate.
I analyzed 25 years of literature and 1766 publications to provide a first quantitative assessment of how tree and shrub seedlings are defined in forest field studies.