This is the mode by which plants reproduce asexually. It involves the production of new plants from the vegetative parts of an existing plant. Different methods of vegetative propagation in plants include stem cutting, layering and grafting.
• Grafting involves fusion of tissues of one plant with those of another plant. Grafting is a vegetative method of propagation for apples and roses.
• Leaf buds can grow as young plants in Bryophyllum. When the leaf touches moist soil, each bud grows into a new plantlet.
• Rhizomes are horizontal, underground plant stems with shoots and roots serving as reproductive structures.
