What’s a good resource for learning how plants propogate? I know some plants like Grasses (Poaceae) have stolons, which creep underground. Others like Tamarisk (Tamarix) spread easily by wind. What about plants like Black Nightshade (Solanum nigrum) ? I’ve noticed it growing under lamp posts where…

Juniper and cholla germinate well from coyote and bear scat, something about the stomach acid and also beneficial, because the seeds get transported far from the source. Creosote and aspens and locust trees sucker (clonal colonies).

some seeds launch, some are wind or water blown, some are eaten and shat, and some catch on to passing animals. i’ve seen specific relations documented, but no general guide or classification.

Plants have an enormous number of ways of propagating. Very broadly they can be broken into several overlapping categories that are not mutually exclusive: vegetative (vegetative propagation is generally/always? asexual), seed/spore based, asexual, and sexual. Vegetative reproduction is common, me…

My friend who is super into native plant species at the moment (southeast US) says this is the best book: The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation: From Seed to Tissue Culture, second edition It’s all the recommendations from scientific studies complete with sources/indexes but organized fo…

In terms of how seeds get around, check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_dispersal My person favorite is ballochory (or ballistic dispersal) where the plant shoots out its seeds. Think of touch me not (Impatiens spp.), Cardamine hirsuta, and the most glorious of them all, the squirting …

earthknight wrote a pretty broad comment on plant propagation! Here is a funny photo showing the asexual reproduction of a liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha. The “mouth” is actually a structure called a gemma cup, containing gemmae which are small structures that fly out of the cup when raindrops fal…

Thanks for the video - I first saw that name yesterday, as I was IDing Unknowns. A most mysterious name …

[image] schizoform: and some catch on to passing animals. Of which one of my favorites is Harpagophytum procumbens .

Wow, that fruit(seed?) looks like some kind of alien from a science fiction film!

How do plants propogate?

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The sound effects added to that video are phenomenal! Was a little dissapointed when viewing this video and it didn’t have the farty-noises.

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How do plants propogate?

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