What is Indeterminate and determinate growth?

Answer 1

Some plants will keep on growing, continuing extending their stems, branches, and twigs almost unstoppable by keep on growing their terminal buds vegetatively. The reproductive buds will also develop from time to time, but will side-lined as axillaries buds while the axillary buds just before that will take over the growth to extend the stem or the branches. This type of growth is called indeterminate growth. Examples of such plants are coconut trees, dates, rattans (example of monocotyledon groups), mangoes, Pears, apples, mangosteens are some of the examples of the dicotyledonous plant groups. These type of plants that continuously produce fruits years after years, is grouped under perennial plants

There are also plants that appeared to be stop growing any further once the terminal buds change from vegetative to reproductive buds. The terminal bud will develop into flowers and will further form fruits at the tip of the stem. The entire plants will be dead soon after that, unless there are other stems develop from the base of the plant such as sucker (example banana, sago) or the lower axillary buds will take over the growth of the plant (e.g., marigold, roses). This system of growth is called terminate growth