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| | [[Image:Zilverschoon_plant_Potentilla_anserina.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Silverweed]] (''Argentina anserina'') picture showing red stolons.]] | | [[Image:Zilverschoon_plant_Potentilla_anserina.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Silverweed]] (''Argentina anserina'') picture showing red stolons.]] |
| − | A '''stolon''', commonly referred to as a '''runner''', is an aerial shoot from a [[plant]] with the ability to produce [[adventitious roots]] and new [[clone]]s of the same plant. Such plants are called stoloniferous. A stolon is a [[plant propagation]] strategy akin to a [[rhizome]]. The complex formed by a mother plant and all its clones connected by stolons is considered to form a single individual. | + | A [[shoot]] that bends to the ground and takes [[root]]; more commonly, a horizontal [[stem]] at or below surface of the ground that gives rise to a new plant at its tip.{{SCH}} |
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| − | Some [[species]] of crawling plants can also sprout adventitious roots, but are not considered stoloniferous : a stolon is sprouted from an existing stem and can produce a full individual. Examples of plants that extend through stolons include some species from the [[Genus|genera]] ''[[Argentina (plant)|Argentina]]'', ''[[Cynodon]]'', ''[[strawberry|Fragaria]] (strawberry)'', and ''[[Pilosella]]'' (Formerly ''[[Hieracium]]'').
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| − | In potatoes, the stolons start to grow within 10 days of plants emerging above ground, with [[tubers]] usually beginning to form on the end of the stolons.
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| − | ==Mycology==
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| − | In mycology, a stolon is defined as an occasionally septate [[hyphae]], which connect [[sporangiophores]] together. Rootlike structures called [[rhizoids]] may appear on the stolon as well, anchoring the hyphae to the [[Substrate (biology)|substrate]].
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| − | ==See also==
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| − | *[[Root]]
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| − | *[[Vegetative reproduction]]
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| − | [[Category:Plant morphology]]
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Latest revision as of 05:34, 17 April 2009
Silverweed (
Argentina anserina) picture showing red stolons.
A shoot that bends to the ground and takes root; more commonly, a horizontal stem at or below surface of the ground that gives rise to a new plant at its tip.CH
