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Re: leaf cuttings -- try try again

Only a few plants, notably gesneriads [African violets and relatives] have
the capacity to start from true leaf cuttings -- where the new plant
acually comes from leaf tissue.

A number of rosette-forming plants can be reproduced from cuttings
including the LEAF-AXIL.  This is where the bud for new growth occurs.  I
don't see why this would be impossible for primlas, but it's so much
easier to divide the plant, with one or more complete crowns for each
division.

lroen russell

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Karen Cooper wrote:

> At 3:25 PM -0400 6/15/98, ginny wrote:
> >Karen,
> >
> >I've never tried leaf cuttings of primulas--they are so easy to divide.
> >
> >Your begonia would start very easily from stem cuttings.  Can be done in
> >water, even.  Though soil is better.
> >
> >Good luck!
> 
> Thanks.  I know they can be started in other ways, but I wanted to do leaf
> cuttings.  Cut up a leaf, and have it make a new plant on each piece?
> That's Magic!
> 
> Karen. [hasn't tried dividing primulas, but has one that's locked in battle
> with a foamflower, so I suppose I ought]
> 
> 
>
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