“…Epicormic shoots, sometimes called reiterates (Barthélémy and Caraglio, 2007), have been the most studied epicormics in both angiosperms (Colin et al, 2008;Fontaine et al, 2004;Nicolini et al, 2001;Spiecker, 1991) and gymnosperms (Bryan and Lanner, 1981;Edelin, 1977;Ishii et al, 2002;O'Hara and Berrill, 2009), in temperate (Del Tredici, 2001;Fink, 1980;Spiecker, 1991;Nicolini et al, 2001) as well as in tropical regions (Ashton et al, 1990;Fink, 1983;Nicolini et al, 2003). Epicormic shoots develop from latent buds (Hartig, 1878), also called epicormic buds, of proven-* Corresponding author: colin@nancy.inra.fr titious (Burrows et al, 2008) or adventitious origin (Fink, 1983;Kauppi and Rinne, 1987). Besides buds and shoots, epicormics include epicormic meristems (Burrows et al, 2003;Fink, 1984), epicormic strands (Burrows, 2002), "embedded latitudinal suppressed buds" (Aloni and Wolf, 1984), bud clusters and burls (Fontaine et al, 2004;Kauppi et al, 1987;Stone and Cornwell, 1968), picots (Fontaine et al, 2004), spheroblasts (Fink, 1980) and lignotubers (Del Tredici, 2001).…”