DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Strawberry plants reproduce through stolons or “runners.” Runners extend out several inches from the crown, take root in the soil, and produce new plants called “daughter plants.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Background Information: Strawberry plants can reproduce by propagation. The parent plant (mother) produc-es runners (horizontal stems) that bud into a new daughter plant. The flowers develop into the fruit, the part we eat.

Detailed explanation-3: -Natural Methods of Asexual Reproduction Many plants, such as ginger, onion, gladioli, and dahlia, continue to grow from buds that are present on the surface of the stem. In some plants, such as the sweet potato, adventitious roots or runners (stolons) can give rise to new plants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Strawberries can reproduce sexually by producing gametes in flowers and asexually by producing new plants at the end of runners. Modern strawberry plants have been bred so that the fruit is much larger than in original the wild varieties.