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plantlets
This terms seems to be a catch all term refering to tiny plants produced on edges of leaves, tips of stolons, etc.. Adventitious nodal roots will form and the plantlet will root while still attached or detached from the mother plant. A common method of reproducing plants like strawberry, Strawberry Begonia, Spider Plants, etc.
A plantlet of a Spider Plant. The red arrows are pointing to the adventitious roots.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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