When a broken piece of the stem of a plant X is planted in the soil, a new plant grows from it in a week's time. The leaves of plant X also have many small entities Y in their margins which can fall to the ground alone or along with leaves and grow into new plants.
(a) Name a plant which X could be.
(b What are the entities Y present on the leaves of X known as ?
(c) Name a plant other than X which can be reproduced from its leaves.
(d) Name a common plant grown in many homes which can be propagated from its broken stems like plant X.
(e) Name a kind of dormant organs present in dry stems of old grass plants lying in the field which get activated and produce green grass plants after the rains.

Answer

(a) Bryophyllum (b) Buds (c) Begonia (d) Money plant (e) Buds.