Growing new plants without seeds

In this activity, students learn how to grow plants from spores, bulbils, rhizomes, stolons, tubers or cuttings.

By the end of this activity, students should be able to:

• discuss one way of growing a new plant without using seeds
• experience one of the following: how to locate spores on a fern frond; how to locate and plant a plantlet growing as a bulbil, from a rhizome or from a stolon; how to divide a tuber or how to make a cutting.

Download the Word file (see link below) for:

• introduction/background notes
• what to do
• discussion questions.