Question

Visit a nearby nursery or agriculture farm in your locality and list five plant species cultivated through vegetative propagation and mention their propagules

Answer 1

The five plant species cultivated through vegetative propagation are sweet potato, sugarcane, pineapple, banana and strawberry

Explanation:

Regeneration of new plants from plant parts is called vegetative propagation. These structures which give rise to new offspring are called vegetative propagation eg. Stolons, rhizomes, tubers, corms, and bulbs, etc.

• The vegetative propagation of the sweet potato crop is the bulb.
• The vegetative propagation of sugarcane crop is called stem.
• The vegetative propagation of the pineapple crop is slip.
• The vegetative propagation of banana crop is the rhizome.
• The vegetative propagation of the strawberry crop is stolons.