"Kay Easton" wrote in message
...
In article , Franz Heymann
writes
Does any reader have any information about the use of aspirin as a
rooting
agent?

No, but I've heard of putting an aspirin in a flower vase to make the
flowers last longer.

Is it true that one can extract a rooting agent by soaking willow bark
and
young stems

Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid. Salicylic acid is so called because it
can be extracted from the bark of willow (Salix)

If you Google on "aspirin rooting" or "salicylic acid rooting" you will come
across a large number of cases in which aspirin and willow bark extract are
discussed in the context of rooting agents. Unfortunately all the entries I
found are either qualitatively anecdotal or second-hand reports.

[Franz Heymann]