This beautiful tree, the Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud tree is the direct result of a chance seedling being discovered by a very astute gardener.Īnd. Asexual reproduction is how nurserymen or nursery women create hundreds and hundreds of identical plants so homeowners across the land can enjoy them. Without “asexual reproduction” most of the beautiful and amazing plants that we have come to love would never be known to us because there would only one of them. Asexual reproduction produces an exact clone of the parent plant. When a plant is grown from a cutting, a graft or a bud that is considered asexual reproduction because it that is not the way that nature intended for plants to be reproduced. Growing a plant from seed is considered sexual reproduction. It has to be budded or grafted to a seedling. A Japanese maple like this cannot be grown from seed. The leaves are much smaller than a regular, or generic Japanese maple and they have very interesting jagged edges. Dissectum meaning split-leaf or cut leaf. The Japanese maple in the above photos is Waterfall, which is in the dissectum family of Japanese maples. Most of the rare, or interesting varieties of Japanese maples are actually grafted on to a Japanese maple seedling, which of course is grown from seed. It’s important to understand that not all, in fact, many Japanese maples are not grown from seed. Japanese maples grown from seed are not an exact clone of the parent plant. Crimson Queen Laceleaf Japanese Red Maple.
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