What is Vegetative Reproduction?

Vegetative reproduction is a type of asexual reproduction in plants where new plants grow from parts like stems, roots, or leaves.

How Does Vegetative Reproduction Work?

Plants can produce offspring without seeds by using their vegetative parts. This allows rapid multiplication and identical offspring.

Types of Vegetative Reproduction

• Natural methods: Runners in strawberry, tubers in potatoes, bulbs in onions.
• Artificial methods: Cutting, grafting, layering done by gardeners.

Advantages of Vegetative Reproduction

• Quick reproduction without pollination.
• Offspring are genetically identical (clones).
• Useful for plants that do not produce seeds easily.

Examples

Potato grows from tubers. Sugarcane grows from stem cuttings.