Plant Propagation Techniques for the Florida Gardener
Sydney Park-Brown
other_contacts: Leynar E. Leyton Naranjo, Cynthia S. Nazario-Leary, Clarissa Chairez, andTiare Saracino
Most plants grown for Florida landscapes or as houseplants can be easily propagated. Home gardeners can thereby increase the number of plants they have and decrease costs. There are two types of propagation techniques: sexual or asexual. Sexual propagation involves starting plants from seed, while asexual propagation involves multiplying plants from vegetative plant parts such as shoots, roots, and leaves, or specialized organs such as bulbs and corms. Methods of propagating common Florida landscape plants are presented in Table 1.
