Question

When a broken piece of the stem of a plant X is planted in the soil, a new plant grows from it in a week's time. The leaves of plant X also have many small entities Y in their margins which can fall to the ground alone or alongwith leaves and grow into new plants.

(a) Name a plant which X could be.
(b) What are the entities Y present on the leaves of X known as?
(c) Name a plant other than X which can be reproduced from its leaves.
(d) Name a common plant grown in many homes which can be propagated from its broken stems like plant X.
(e) Name a kind of dormant organs present in dry stems of old grass plants lying in the fields which get activated and produce green grass plants after the rains.

Answer 1

(a) The plant X is Bryophyllum.

(b) The entities, Y, present on the leaves of X are known as buds.

(c) Other than X, Begonia can also be reproduced by its leaves.

(d) Money plant can be propagated from its broken stem similar to plant X.

(e) Buds are present in the dry stems of the old grass lying in the fields. These buds get activated after a spell of shower, and  start producing new grasses.