WorksheetsPropagation
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is a hardwood cutting?
A cutting from semi-ripe material
A cutting from ripe material
A cutting from softwood material
Seed propagation
What is a semi-ripe cutting?
A cutting from hard wood
A cutting from partially hard wood
A cutting from softwood
A cutting from a root
A stolon or runner is what?
A stem that runs along or just under the ground and roots as it goes.
A German Christmas cake.
Something that has been pinched
Plants that grow in the leaf axils or margins.
A root cut into several pieces and placed into compost is called what?
An inter-nodal cutting
A nodal cutting
A root cutting
A stem cutting
What is a leaf cutting?
Cuttings taken from a stem with a lot of leaves on it
Sections or small leaves inserted into compost.
Roots cut into sections
Stems cut into sections
What is layering?
Placing layers of plants on top of each other
Breaking off stem pieces and planting them.
Pegging down pieces of stem and waiting for them to root.
Taking small pieces of root and putting them in a seed tray.
What is micro-propagation
Propagating from small pieces of plant tissue in laboratory conditions.
Propagating with small pieces of root.
Propagating with plantlets.
Propagating with bulbils
What are bulbils.
Cows with beaks.
Small bulbs that grow around the base of a bulb or around the flower head and in the leaf axils.
Small flowers in the leaf axils.
A type of root.
What is node?
A stem joint
A root joint
A petal joint
A form of knowledge
What is scarification?
When you frighten someone.
When you scratch the seed coat to aid germination.
When you chill the seed.
When you crush the seed.
