Plants can reproduce without seeds through various methods, including:
1. Vegetative propagation: This involves the growth of new plants from vegetative parts, such as leaves, stems, or roots. Examples include runners in strawberries and tubers in potatoes.
2. Rhizomes: Underground stems that produce new shoots and roots, like ginger and turmeric.
3. Stolons: Above-ground stems that produce new shoots and roots, like grasses and mint.
4. Tubers: Swollen underground storage organs that produce new shoots, like potatoes.
5. Bulbs: Underground storage organs that produce new shoots, like onions and lilies.
6. Leaf cuttings: Some plants can grow new plants from leaf cuttings, like African Violets.
7. Division: Some plants can be divided into separate sections, each of which can grow into a new plant, like hostas and daylilies.
8. Budding: Some plants produce buds that can grow into new plants, like coral bells and hydrangeas.
These methods allow plants to reproduce asexually, meaning the new plants are genetically identical to the parent plant.
