Characteristics of propagation from vegetative parts

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Plant propagation
  Seed propagation
  Sowing and aftercare in protected environments
  Sowing in the open
  Vegetative propagation
  Characteristics of propagation from vegetative parts
  Natural vegetative propagation
  Divisions
  Rhizomes
  Bulbs
  Artificial methods of propagation
  Cuttings
  Budding and grafting
  Tissue culture

Vegetative propagation is used in horticulture to produce numbers of plants from a single parent plant. This group of plants, or clone , is an extension of the parent plant and therefore all will have the same genetic characteristics. The greatest advantage for horticulturists is to be able to reproduce a cultivar in which all the resulting plants exhibit consistent characteristics. There are some cultivars that can only be reproduced by vegetative means. Seeds produced without fertilization (i.e. by apomixis) found in Alchemilla, Rosaceae, Poaceae and Taraxacum present a special case of natural clonal propagation.

In vegetatively propagated cultivars, changes can occur (see mutations) and differing clonal characteristics within the same cultivar can be distinguished in some species, i.e. ‘sports’ e.g. the leaf colour and plant habit of × Cupressocyparis leylandii.

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