This plant has buds in the margins of its leaves- nbsp-If a leaf of this plant falls on a moist soil- each bud can give rise to a new plant- nbsp-The name of this plant is-A- Spirogyra-B- Bryophyllum-C- drumstick-D- fern-Answer and don-t provide links-

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This plant has buds in the margins of its leaves. If a leaf of this plant falls on a moist soil, each bud can give rise to a new plant. The name of this plant is:
(A) Spirogyra
(B) Bryophyllum
(C) drumstick
(D) fern
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Its (B) Bryophyllum, is commonly propagated through leaves. This plant has buds in the margins of its leaves.When buds falls on moist soil, each bud can give rise to new a plant.

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Q. In the Bryophyllum plant, after the bud grows into a new independent plant, will the buds grow again on the leaf?

Q. This plant is cultivated in large commercial operations. It is valued for its young leaves and leaf buds. There are three main varieties of this plant. They are exclusively grown in China, Assam, and Cambodia. Hybrid varieties of this plant are also common. The produce of this plant belongs to which category of crops?

Q. On the margins of the leaves of Bryophyllum, tiny plantlets grow with roots. These are detached and on reaching soil grow into new plants; this type of reproduction is called :

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Some flowers are fruits

Some fruits are buds

No bud is a leaf

All leaves are plants

Conclusions

I. No plant is bud

II. Some plants are fruits

III. Some buds are flowers

When a broken piece of the stem of a plant X is planted in the soil, a new plant grows from it in a week's time. The leaves of plant X also have many small entities Y in their margins which can fall to the ground alone or along with leaves and grow into new plants.
(a) Name a plant which X could be.
(b) What are the entities Y present on the leaves of X known as?
(c) Name a plant other than X which can be reproduced from its leaves.
(d) Name a common plant grown in many homes which can be propagated from its broken stems like plant X.
(e) Name a kind of dormant organs present in dry stems of old grass plants lying in the fields which get activated and produce green grass plants after the rains.

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This plant has buds in the margins of its leaves. If a leaf of this plant falls on a moist soil, each bud can give rise to a new plant. The name of this plant is: (A) Spirogyra (B) Bryophyllum (C) drumstick (D) fern Answer and don't provide links.

Its (B) Bryophyllum, is commonly propagated through leaves. This plant has buds in the margins of its leaves.When buds falls on moist soil, each bud can give rise to new a plant.

This plant has buds in the margins of its leaves. If a leaf of this plant falls on a moist soil, each bud can give rise to a new plant. The name of this plant is:
(A) Spirogyra
(B) Bryophyllum
(C) drumstick
(D) fern
Answer and don't provide links.