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Orchids are propagated vegetatively as well as generatively. With vegetative propagation, the progeny is identical to the parent plants. However, with generative propagation (by seed), identical progency are rarely obtained, and then only when it concerns the wild species. Therefore, if seeds from a cultivated orchid are used (mainly obtained from a cross and strongly heterozygous), the progeny will be extremely heterogeneous, seldom identical to the starting material. In principle, cultivated orchids can only be propagated vegetatively. Orchid cloning in vivo is a very slow process, requiring sometimes 10 years before a clone of some size is obtained.
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Pierik, R.L.M. (1997). Vegetative propagation of orchids. In: In Vitro Culture of Higher Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5750-6_17
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