Most vegetation species, if duplicating related to sex or asexually, extend to augment all through their lifetimes in a method called indeterminate growth. (Animals, by compare, undergo determinate development, in which development halts one time the one-by-one comes to a certain size.) Through the method of indeterminate development, a one-by-one vegetation can certainly boost the allowance of air, water, and sunlight it obtains over the course of its life.
Indeterminate development does not convert into immortality. All plants pursue one of three exact life circuits from germination to death: