It relies strongly on vegetative reproduction for continuation of the species.
Plants have a number of mechanisms for asexual or vegetative reproduction.
Specific information on the vegetative reproduction of nutmeg hickory is not available.
Instead, they form colonies which spread by vegetative reproduction along rootstocks.
This is a phenomenon of natural asexual spread, also known in plants as vegetative reproduction.
These form new plants the following year, serving as a means of vegetative reproduction.
Fragmentation is a very common type of vegetative reproduction in plants.
"If vegetative reproduction is your bag," she shouted, "how come this big interest in heterosexuality?"
These cases would not be vegetative reproduction because normally reproductive parts were involved.
Another type of a vegetative reproduction is the production of bulbs.