Stem cutting

Japanese: 茎挿 - くきさし
Stem cutting

…In addition to flowering trees and fruit trees, cuttings are also used for herbaceous plants such as chrysanthemums, carnations, peperomia, saintpaulia, and gloxinia. Depending on the part of the plant used as the cutting, it can be classified as leaf cuttings, branch cuttings (stem cuttings), or root cuttings, but branch cuttings are the most common. Cuttings can be used to relatively easily propagate many individuals with the same characteristics as the mother plant, and cuttings flower and bear fruit more quickly than plants grown from seeds (seedlings). …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "stem insertion" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…花木,果樹などのほか,キク,カーネーション,ペペロミア,セントポーリア,グロキシニアなどの草本植物でも行われる。挿穂として利用する部位によって葉挿,枝挿(茎挿),根挿に分類されるが,枝挿が一般的である。挿木によって母植物と同じ形質をもつ個体を比較的簡単に多数増殖することができ,また,挿木苗は種子から育てた植物(実生苗)に比べて開花や結実が早くなる。…

※「茎挿」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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