Categories of planting materials
1. Seeds: Whole seeds or seedlings that are used for planting and growing crops or plants.
2. Bulbs: Underground storage organs that contain the nutrients and embryo needed for a plant to grow.
3. Cuttings: Portions of stems, roots, or leaves that are taken from a parent plant and used to propagate new plants.
4. Tubers: Underground, swollen storage organs that contain the necessary nutrients for a plant to grow.
5. Rhizomes: Modified stems that grow horizontally underground and produce new shoots and roots.
6. Seedlings: Young plants that have been grown from seeds and are ready to be transplanted to a new location.
7. Clones: Genetically identical plants that have been propagated asexually from a single parent plant.
8. Suckers: Shoots that grow from the roots or base of a plant and can be detached and replanted to propagate new plants.
9. Offshoots: New shoots that grow from the base or stems of a plant and can be separated and replanted to propagate new plants.
10. Grafts: The practice of joining the tissues of two different plants to create a new plant with the desirable characteristics of both parents.