Question

(a) Explain how, new Bryophyllum plants can be produced from the leaves of the old plant? Illustrate your answer with the help of a labelled diagram.
(b) How can you grow money plant by vegetative propagation?

Answer 1

(a) In Bryophyllum, the buds are present on the leaf margins. These buds have the potential of vegetative reproduction. When these buds get detached from the leaves and fall on ground, they grow into new plants. In cases, where the buds don't detach from the leaves, plantlets start growing, over the later.

(b) Money plant can be grown by the vegetative propagation of its stem. Cut a piece from its stem, comprising at least one leaf, and dip it into water. After a few days, roots will grow from the point of attachment of the leaf, and the stem will start developing into a new plant.