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Saprophytic plants are not unusual in nature. These are plants that live off of dead and decaying matter. They cannot make their own food as they contain no chlorophyll and cannot photosynthesize. Most of them are found in defined locations since they have a very specific arrangement with their environment. While some such as mistletoe […]
It is important to know the difference between cultivars, hybrids and varieties for propagation as well as legal reasons. Hybrids are fairly simple and most people who deal with plants are familiar as to how they are produced. Two plants of the same species or closely related species are crossed. This is done by placing […]