Types of vegetative propagation in plants and their description.

Both in nature and in breeding, there are many types of vegetative reproduction. This helps the plants become more competitive and not dependent on sexual reproduction alone. In natural conditions, the following types of vegetative reproduction can be observed:

Shoots.
Branches.
Leaves.
Accessory shoots.
Adventitious roots.

In nature, there are many plants, such as, for example, cycads, in which processes are formed on the trunk. These shoots first receive nutrients from the mother plant, but then they begin to take root, dissolve the leaves and begin to function independently.

In their natural environment, trees often break branches. In many species, for example, in magnolias, a fallen branch, with sufficient moisture in the soil, begins to take root rather quickly, and after a few years it begins to give new branches, becoming a tree. In some plants, even a broken leaf has the ability to give roots. These plants are ficuses.

For herbaceous plants, vegetative propagation with the help of adventitious roots or stems is more typical. For example, strawberries in the wild, as in human cultivation, reproduce by creeping shoots. And many ferns put down long adventitious roots, which, moving away from the mother plant, begin to dissolve the leaves and root system.