Gourmand: In botany, a gourmand (not to be confused with a sucker) is an epicormic branch which grows spontaneously on a part exposed to the light of a plant, and in particular after a phase of self-pruning of a tree when 'it grew in the shelter of the canopy, or on a pruned trunk.
A greedy one can diminish the value or the quality of a foot log.
In horticulture, it is by extension a twig that has taken a disproportionate size, compared to those of the twigs that have ...
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