Tissue culture
Propagation and reproduction
Definition: The process of generating new plants by placing small pieces of plant material onto a sterile medium.
How it applies to plumeria: Tissue culture can relate to cuttings, rooting, grafting, seed pods, seedlings, or pollination. These details help explain how a plumeria is reproduced and whether a plant is a clone, a seedling, or a grafted plant.
What to look for: Record whether the observation came from a cutting, grafted plant, seedling, pod parent, or pollen parent. Propagation notes are useful, but they should be kept separate from visual identification traits.
Identification note: This term is one clue. A plumeria should be compared using all available traits, photos, source history, and growing context rather than a single characteristic.
- Glossary: CultivarCultivar: Cultivars are not necessarily true to type. In fact cultivar means "cultivated variety. " Therefore, a cultivar was selected and cultivated by humans. Plumeria context is explained on the term page.
- Glossary: CloneClone: A plant group whose members have all been derived from a single individual through constant propagation by vegetative (asexual) means, e. Plumeria context is explained on the term page.
- Plumeria Cultivars and Varieties