When the branches of a plant growing in the field are pulled towards the ground and a part of them is covered with moist soil (leaving the tips of the branches exposed above the ground), then after some time new roots develop from the parts of branches buried in the soil. On cutting these branches from the parent plant new plants are produced from the cut parts of branches which had developed roots.
(a) What is this method or propagation of plants knows as ?
(b) What type of branches should a plant have to be able to be propagated by this method?
(c) Name any two plants which are grown for their flower and propagated by this method
(d) Name any two plants which are grown for their fruits and propagated by this method
(e) Name of plant which gets propagated by this method naturally by forming runners (soft horizontal stem running above the ground)

Answer

(a) Layering (b) Slender branches (Thin branches) (c) Jasmine and china rose (d) Lemon and Guava (e) Strawberry