To gain confidence with this asexual reproduction, in which the reproductive organs of the plant do not intervene, it is a ...

A cutting from a plant is grafted (attached ... Advantages for the plant of carrying out asexual reproduction: Only one parent plant is required. New plants are genetically identical to the ...

(Mutations do create a minor amount of change.) If asexual reproduction survives at all, conditions must sometimes favor it, even in competition for a niche with sexually reproducing species.