Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s3.13

c5.s3.13

“O the greatest of sages, just as there are embryo (*aṅkur*), root (*mūla*), stem (*nāla*), leaf (*patra*), flower (*pushpa*), milky sap (*kshīra*), husks (glumes—*tusha*), seed-vessel (*kosha*, *vīja kosha*), seed (*taṇḍula*, rice) and endosperm in seeds (*kaṇā*) in the paddy, and they become manifest only under suitable conditions such as soil, water, etc.”