GardenWeb Glossary of Botanical Terms
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- cutting
- What growers of houseplants call slips, used for propagating new plants. The method involves cutting or breaking off a part of the plant, inserting it in growing medium so it can grow a new plant like the one from which it came. Hardwood cuttings are mature wood; softwood cuttings are taken in spring or early summer from tips when plants are actively growing; semihardwood cuttings are taken in late summer or fall when growth has slowed and wood is beginning to harden.
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- cutting garden
- A garden of flowers which can be cut and used in arrangements.
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- cut flowers (alt. cutting flowers)
- Species of flowers which are removed from the plant for arrangements and which easily retain their freshness.
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- hardwood cutting
- Cutting taken from a mature woody stem for the purpose of propagation.
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- rhizome cutting
- A piece cut from a rhizome which can take root and form a new plant.
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- root cutting
- A cutting taken from the root of a parent plant for the purpose of propagation.
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- selective felling (syn. selective cutting)
- When only choice trees are cut in a forest.
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- semihardwood cutting
- A cutting taken from a stem that has just begun to develop woody tissue, for the purpose of propagation.
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- semiripe cuttings
- Cuttings taken in mid-summer to autumn to propagate woody plants.
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- softwood cutting
- A cutting taken from a green or immature stem of a woody plant, for the purpose of propagation.
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