shoot arising from a dormant bud. or from newly formed adventitious tissue.

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epicormic shoot (Wikipedia)
Epicormic shoots sprouting vigorously from epicormic buds beneath the bushfire damaged bark on the trunk of a Eucalyptus tree

An epicormic shoot is a shoot growing from an epicormic bud, which lies underneath the bark of a trunk, stem, or branch of a plant.

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