In article ,
"Martin & Anna Sykes" writes:
| If a plant isn't self-fertile, will it be pollinated by a plant grown from a
| cutting of itself which is effectively a clone of the same plant?

In general, yes, but plants occasionally and spontaneously 'break
clone'. Whether this affects inter-fertility, I don't know.

| I guess question this only applies to plants which have male and female
| parts on the same plant. If I propagate by cuttings from a male holly for
| example, I can only ever get more male plants right?

In general, yes, but sexuality in plants is more complex than even
that of the human race. It is possible that a very few plants may
have shoots that are entirely one sex, and that propagating from
those shoots takes up that sex. Like the growth pattern in ivy.
And it might be possible to reverse the specialisation, too.

I don't know that it DOES happen - merely that I wouldn't rule
it out.


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