plantlet

Mine even boasted a Keikis Hawaiian for baby or child, a small plantlet growing off a branch of the main plant, and which can be repotted, along with the roots growing with it, to create a whole new plant and years more of bargain-basement growing and viewing pleasure.

Where Expertise Blooms Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

(A propagule is any part of a plant that can separate from the parent and grow into a new plant, for example, a seed, an agave aerial plantlet, a cholla joint.)

Adaptations of desert plants 2009

Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew:

Mennonites, those Goth kids, and al Qaeda 2007

Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew:

Greenery 2007

The disadvantage of adventitious plantlet formation is that genetic variability often increases, especially when the plantlets are derived from callus.

1. Household gardening projects in asia: past experience and future directions 1992

See the bean plantlet, big, sturdy, fellow, is still clinging to its seed leaves or cotyledons, its baby nourishment.

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

This little plantlet feeds upon this stored food until its roots are prepared to do their work.

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

The radicle of the dodder fixes itself in the earth, and the little stem rises as in other dicotyledons; but soon (for the plantlet could not live long thus) this stem, which is as slender as a thread, seeks support upon some neighboring plant, and produces upon its surfaces of contact one or more little protuberances that shortly afterward adhere firmly to the support and take on the appearance and functions of cupping glasses.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various

It has come from a tiny helpless seed to a living plantlet with the smallest stem and root, and while the stem fights for a place in the air the root never ceases to get a strong hold of the dear earth in which the plant finds its home.

Music Talks with Children Thomas Tapper

And so if we choose a large seed, we have chosen a greater amount of food for the plantlet.

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw