Question

Name the vegetative propagates in the following.
a) Bryophyllum b) Agave

Answer 1

Hint: In plants, vegetative propagules are considered the units or frameworks of vegetative propagation that are able to give birth to new offspring.

Complete answer:
- Vegetative propagation happens in its branches, roots, and stem as an asexual form of plant reproduction. This will happen by the fragmentation and regeneration of individual plant vegetative sections.
- The form of vegetative propagation that happens as plants mature and grow spontaneously but with no human intervention is natural vegetative propagation. The creation of adventitious roots will cause natural vegetative propagation. New plants may thus grow from the parent plant's roots, leaves and stems.
- Asexual propagation strategies have been developed by horticulturalists that use vegetative plant sections to reproduce plants. Success rates and transmission problems differ significantly. Typically, monocotyledons neglect a vascular cambium and are thus harder to spread.
- Bulbs possess an underground stem to which they connect the leaves. These leaves have the capacity to store food. The bulb's middle includes an apical bud that creates flowers and leaves. From the lateral buds, shoots are grown. A few plants' leaves are separated from the parent plant and grow into a new plant.

a) Bryophyllum's vegetative propagules are the leaf buds.
b) Agave's vegetative propagules are the bulbils.

Note: Natural vegetative propagation is often a mechanism seen in perennial herbaceous and woody plants, and usually includes structural changes to the stem, but any horizontal, underlying portion of a plant may lead to the vegetative propagation of a plant.