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A wound that grows roots — snip a stem, and it grows a whole new self.
means A piece of stem, leaf, or root cut from a plant and used to grow a brand-new plant, all genetically identical to the parent.
from From the verb 'cut,' which traces back to Middle English 'cutten' — itself of uncertain origin, possibly from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse-influenced dialect words for slicing). The gardening sense is the literal one made tender: a thing you have cut off. The same root that lets you cut bread or cut a deal also lets you cut a stem and watch it root — language and rosebush both propagating from the same small slice.
- clones
- Cuttings are genetic copies, not children
- willow trick
- Willow water hormones help other cuttings root
- ancient practice
- Grapevines cloned this way for millennia
- rooting hormone
- Auxin pools at the cut, sparking roots
- the oldest vines
- Some grape varieties are millennia-old clones
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