10 ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION PLANTS - BIOLOGY - 2025

Some asexual reproduction plants are strawberries, kalanchoe, tulips, dandelions, potatoes or the cypress Cupressus dupreziana.

Asexual reproduction in plants is a process by which plants reproduce without the need for gametes. In this case, there is no need for two types of cells from different individuals.

Dandelion, a plant that reproduces asexually by means of spores

Asexual reproduction allows the offspring to be very similar to the plant that generates them and requires far fewer processes than sexual reproduction.

There are mainly two mechanisms of asexual reproduction in plants. The first is apomixis, which consists of reproduction by seeds.

The second is vegetative reproduction that consists of the formation of new individuals by meiosis (without the formation of spores or seeds being necessary).

Plants that reproduce asexually are very numerous. In fact, it is estimated that most plants reproduce through this process.

Some of the plants that reproduce asexually

Strawberries

Strawberries can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Asexual reproduction has been found to require about 8 times less effort on the plant than sexual reproduction.

The asexual reproduction of strawberries occurs through vegetative reproduction.

The kalanchoe

Kalanchoe is a plant traditionally recognized for its anticancer properties.

Like strawberries, it can also reproduce through vegetative reproduction from seedlings or leftovers from its leaves.

The tulips

Tulips are usually very long and bright flowering plants. Its asexual reproduction is due to the vegetative reproduction mechanism through bulbs.

These bulbs are fleshy stems that are buried in the ground and from which new plants sprout.

Lion teeth

Dandelions are plants that reproduce asexually through apomixis, that is, by means of spores.

Since the embryo contained in the gamete is formed without meiosis, the offspring of dandelions are identical to the plant that originated them.

Cypress

This cypress reproduces asexually by means of a male apomixis. The cypress produces diploid pollen grains that form an embryo upon reaching the cones of the female of another cypress.

Few plants like this carry out male apomixis.

Dad

The potato is a plant that has underground stems or tubers. In the tubers germ cells can be found that allow the asexual reproduction of the potato.

Dahlia

This perennial plant, close to other plants such as sunflower and chrysanthemum.

It reproduces asexually through vegetative reproduction by thick tubers similar to those of the potato.

Brachiaria

It is a genus of plants that belong to the grass family and that is very common in tropical areas. Their asexual reproduction occurs through apomixis.

Panicum

This genus of grasses are common in tropical regions. Like the brachiaria, they reproduce asexually also through apomixis.

Cenchrus

This herbaceous plant also reproduces by means of apomixis. It is common to find it in temperate and tropical areas of the world.

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