Plural form (or Latin classification) of exogen; plants that grow by external addition of tissue.
Latin plural of 'exogen,' used in classical botanical classification systems to group plants sharing external growth patterns.
When 18th-century botanists sorted plants into 'exogenae' and 'endogenae,' they were actually discovering one of the fundamental ways plants evolved different survival strategies!
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