In vegetative propagation, new plants are obtained from the parts of old plants like stems, roots and leaves, without the help of any reproductive organ.

There are two ways of vegetative propagation:

(a) Natural Vegetative Propagation, and

(b) Artificial Vegetative Propagation.

Natural vegetative propagation by leaves: The fleshy leaves of Bryophyllum bear adventitious buds in the notches along the leaf margin.

Grafting: In this method of reproduction, two plants of closely related varieties are joined together so that they live as one plant.

The portion of a plant that is grafted on the other plant is called scion, and the plant in which grafting is performed is called the stock.

This method is applied to improve variety of fruits like mango, apple, peas, citrus and guava.

Advantages of vegetative propagation are:

(i) Vegetative propagation is a cheaper, easier and more rapid method of propagation in plants than growing plants from their seeds.

(ii) Better quality of the plants can be maintained by this method.