Root, Leaf and Other Cuttings

Question 1

A small plant complete with roots and shoots that arises asexually on some portion of the parent plant

Answer 1

Aerial plantlet

Question 2

A cutting taken from the flowering stalk of a grass

Answer 2

Culm cutting

Question 3

A cutting composed of the leaf blade, petiole, and a small part of the stem with an axillary bud; also referred to as a “bud shield, “ “single eye,” or “single node” cutting

Answer 3

Leaf bud cutting

Question 4

A means of asexual propagation involving growing a new plant from a leaf blade, leaf and petiole, or leaf, petiole, and bud

Answer 4

Leaf cutting

Question 5

A layer of a woody plant’s root that is bordered by phloem on the inner side and xylem on the outer side and which can give rise to both adventitious shoots and roots in a root cutting

Answer 5

Pericycle

Question 6

A secondary meristem responsible for increasing the girth of a woody plant by producing outer layers of the bark.

Gives rise to shoots in a root cutting

Answer 6

Phellogen

Question 7

Lines of tissue mostly composed of parenchyma cells that appear as spokes on a wheel in a cross section of a plant

Gives rise to shoots in a root cutting

Answer 7

Ray

Question 8

A means of asexual propagation involving growing a new plant from a piece of the root of the parent plant

Best taken during the dormant season

Answer 8

Root cutting

Question 9

A secondary meristem responsible for increasing the girth of a woody plant by producing xylem and phloem tissues

Gives rise to roots in a root cutting

Answer 9

Vascular cambium