In Plants Certain Structures Such As Runner Rhizome
Modified stems are most often the source of vegetative plant propagation.
In plants certain structures such as runner rhizome. Plantlets emerge from plant leaves. Juvenile vegetative phase All organisms have to reach a certain stage of growth and maturity. Some plants with rhizomes such as German iris Iris germanica are so valued in the landscape that gardeners generally want them to multiply.
Runners are specialized stems called stolons. Anatomically plants are very complex organisms and are classified into various types based on certain defining characteristics. These roots all arose from the stem of the plant and are called adventitious roots.
These structures are called vegetative propagules. Vertical shoots may arise from the buds on the rhizome of some plants such as ginger and ferns. But rhizome can give rise to both shoots and roots.
Certain plants generally of weak herbaceous habit propagate quickly by means of special branch stems which give rise to small daughter plants. However plant runners must stay attached to the host plant in order to survive and become. Its a non-green fleshy underground stem with nodes and internodes.
Vegetative plant structures that arise from plant stems include rhizomes runners bulbs tubers and corms. Shoot system modificationsthe soil surface are called stolons or runners. Among the subterranean stems are the rhizome corm and tuber.
Monocots have a root system that is composed of a network of fibrous roots as shown in the picture to the right. The taproot was the first root that emerged from the seed which is known as the radicle. Stolons have scale leaves and can develop roots and therefore new plants.