An Unique Vegetative reproduction in a Bryophyllum species (possibly Bryophyllum laetivirens) of my small terrace garden – An ornamental plant popularly known as ‘Mother of thousand plants’: A study with a series of 11 macro photographs- III
Little plantlets are born of the leaf-notches on the fringes of the leaves of mother plant… a natural display of cloning.
My experience:
I found an amazing tendency and survival strategy, where even a plantlet grown out of a leaf, gives birth to still smaller plantlets(coming in my latter photographs). I observed this in the beginning of winter season- a possible reproductive strategy of this species in the forthcoming dry and cold climate.
I confess that many things I didn’t know before I cultivated some serious hobbies like travelling, gardening, and of course photography. My passionate hobbies brought me to such a close proximity of so many things in the nature for making me understand their hidden mysteries and natural laws behind their beauties and success…that none of my text books and college laboratories had ever provided.
A little note on bryophyllum : An unique example of cloning in nature
Bryophyllum is a plant genus of the Crassulaceae family that has sometimes been included within the genus Kalanchoe. There are about forty species in the group, native originally of South Africa, Madagascar, and possibly Asia. The plants are notable for their interesting vegetative reproduction, a strategic adaptive growing of new plantlets on the fringes of the leaves; these eventually drop off and root. These plantlets arise from mitosis of meristematic-type of tissues in the notches of the leaves. This might be one of the finest example of cloning in nature.
Source: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryophyllum] + Others
[ NB: Need a little break before resuming to my USA trip.]
An Unique Vegetative reproduction in a Bryophyllum species (possibly Bryophyllum laetivirens) of my small terrace garden – An ornamental plant popularly known as ‘Mother of thousand plants’: A study with a series of 11 macro photographs- III
Little plantlets are born of the leaf-notches on the fringes of the leaves of mother plant… a natural display of cloning.
My experience:
I found an amazing tendency and survival strategy, where even a plantlet grown out of a leaf, gives birth to still smaller plantlets(coming in my latter photographs). I observed this in the beginning of winter season- a possible reproductive strategy of this species in the forthcoming dry and cold climate.
I confess that many things I didn’t know before I cultivated some serious hobbies like travelling, gardening, and of course photography. My passionate hobbies brought me to such a close proximity of so many things in the nature for making me understand their hidden mysteries and natural laws behind their beauties and success…that none of my text books and college laboratories had ever provided.
A little note on bryophyllum : An unique example of cloning in nature
Bryophyllum is a plant genus of the Crassulaceae family that has sometimes been included within the genus Kalanchoe. There are about forty species in the group, native originally of South Africa, Madagascar, and possibly Asia. The plants are notable for their interesting vegetative reproduction, a strategic adaptive growing of new plantlets on the fringes of the leaves; these eventually drop off and root. These plantlets arise from mitosis of meristematic-type of tissues in the notches of the leaves. This might be one of the finest example of cloning in nature.
Source: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryophyllum] + Others
[ NB: Need a little break before resuming to my USA trip.]