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P. Gerrienne for permission to publish the photographs
illustrated in Figures 3a, b and B. Stein for the photograph
in Figure 3c. The comments and suggestions of two anon-
ymous reviewers were highly appreciated. This research
was funded by two projects: Eclipse II 'Terrestrialization'
and ANR 'Accro-Earth'. AMAP (Botany and Compu-
tational Plant Architecture) is a joint research unit which
associates CIRAD (UMR51), le CNRS (UMR5120),
l'INRA (UMR931), l'IRD (R123) and l'Universit´ de
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