parent plant
Propagation donor organism
A parent plant is the original plant from which new plants are propagated—whether through cuttings, division, seeds, or other reproductive methods.
The offspring inherit genetic material from the parent plant: Take cuttings from a healthy parent plant.
In grafting, the parent plant may refer specifically to the rootstock or the source of the scion.
- root cuttingSevered root for propagation
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- asexual reproductionSingle-parent cloning process
- rootingActively cheering someone on
- stockGoods kept for sale
stem cutting · grafting · rootstock · bulb · nursery · garden center · cultivar · hybrid · germination · shoot · sprout · rhizome · layering · vegetative · heritage · heirloom · tuber · stolon
- breedingselective breeding, breeder, crossbreeding, mating, breeding pair
- Orchid Propagationpropagation, keiki, division, cloning, tissue culture
- seed dispersaldispersal, seed dispersal, burrs, samara, tumbleweeds