Sentence examples for plantlets from inspiring English sources

These bulblike bodies left unsectioned develop into small plantlets.

Seed can be sown every two weeks from early spring to late summer, in rows 30 cm (12 inches) apart, the plantlets being thinned in the row.

The pickaback is a popular houseplant, particularly notable for its curious reproductive abilities: the leaves of the parent plant arise from an underground stem and, when mature, they produce new plantlets from buds at the base of their leaf blades.

Some species are able to reproduce vegetatively; Nymphaea mexicana spreads by runners, and N. micrantha of western Africa produces detachable plantlets at the junction of the petiole and the blade.

Small bisexual flowers are borne on a sparse flower spike, and some species produce clonal plantlets that readily root to produce new plants.

The spider plants (Chlorophytum, or Anthericum) are houseplant favourites, forming clusters of fresh green ribbonlike leaves banded white; young plantlets develop from the tips of arching stalks.

Periodically a flower stem emerges, and tiny white flowers not always produced are replaced by young plantlets, which can then be detached and rooted.

In this instance, small plantlets develop spontaneously in incredible numbers from the superficial cell layers of the leaf blades, petioles, and stems.

Members of the genus Kalanchoe produce plantlets on the indentations of the leaf margins.

Although these plantlets develop a vascular system of their own, the vast majority never succeed in connecting that system with the vascular system of the host.

I have friends who claim they sold their property because the adorable little ajuga plantlet that was once a gift from a "benevolent friend" conquered the lawn.