Divaricate in a sentence as a verb

NZ has a lot of divaricated plants, as well as species that have a very unpalatable juvenile form of foliage, that changes to more efficient leaves once the tree is above a certain height. There's a lot of discussion if these were adaptations to browsing by moa.

Divaricate definitions

verb

branch off; "The road divaricates here"

verb

spread apart; "divaricate one's fingers"