Yes Rashida ji You have got it right. Many plants develop bulbils in place of flowers. Top onion, a pseudodiploid can survive only because of this so called vivipary, and infact it was earlier named as *Allium* *cepa* var. *viviparum.* * * *** -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ * On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Rashida Atthar <[email protected]>wrote:
> This is interesting. As per definations- some plants produce seeds that > undergo no dormancy . The growth while the seed and fruit are still on the > plant is termed vivipary. Another defination says True vivipary, the > germination of seed before dispersal is relatively rare ( as in mangrove > species), in contrast to false vivipary (prolification) which represents a > development of rooting vegetative buds instead of flowers. Could this be a > case false vivipary? > > regards, > Rashida. > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not vivipary >> >> On Feb 11, 12:51 am, Padmini Raghavan <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > What method of reproduction is this? >> > I got 16 little plantlets from this one stalk with a single flower of >> the >> > Red Ginger. >> > Thanks, >> > Padmini Raghavan. >> > >> > Red Ginger Lily 005.jpg >> > 230KViewDownload >> > >> > Red Ginger Lily 012.jpg >> > 222KViewDownload >> > >> > Red Ginger Lily 015.jpg >> > 217KViewDownload >> > >> > Red Ginger Lily 022.jpg >> > 225KViewDownload >> > >
