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Site: MISIN Learn
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Vegetative Reproduction

Asexual reproduction, in which new individuals develop from vegetative parts such as stem or root tissue, rather than seeds or spores.

Violaceae

Violet Family. Comprised of 23 genera and 800 species that are typically small, perennial, and herbaceous. Most species are shrubs, lianas or small trees. Members of this family usually have alternate leaves with small leafy growths, flowers like violets with five unequal petals and a spur, calyx of five parts, three part seed capsule, and may have cleistogamous flowers.

Vitaceae

Grape Family. Comprised of 12 genera of woody plants, most of them tendril-bearing vines.