why does secondary growth not occur in monocot plants?

Answer Posted / suraj goswami

Secondary growth is absent in most of the monocot stem. because cambium not present between the xylem and phloem than they does not follow the pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem to the inside and phloem to the outside.
this process called abnormal secondary growth.

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