Editing Cultivar (section)

=== Clones ===

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[[File:Leucospermum cultivar Edit.jpg|right|thumb|220px|{{center|''[[Leucospermum]]'' 'Scarlet Ribbon'<br />A cross performed in Tasmania between ''[[Leucospermum glabrum|L.&nbsp;glabrum]]'' and ''[[Leucospermum tottum|L.&nbsp;tottum]]''}}]]

Cultivars that are produced asexually are genetically identical and known as [[Cloning|clones]]; this includes plants propagated by [[division (horticulture)|division]], [[layering]], [[cutting (plant)|cuttings]], [[grafting|grafts]], and [[budding]]. The propagating material may be taken from a particular part of the plant, such as a lateral branch, or from a particular phase of the life cycle, such as a juvenile leaf, or from aberrant growth as occurs with [[witch's broom]]. Plants whose distinctive characters are derived from the presence of an intracellular organism may also form a cultivar provided the characters are reproduced reliably from generation to generation. Plants of the same [[chimera (plant)|chimera]] (which have mutant tissues close to normal tissue) or graft-chimeras (which have vegetative tissue from different kinds of plants and which originate by grafting) may also constitute a cultivar.<ref>Cultivated Plant Code, Articles 2.5–2.11 {{Harvnb|Brickell|2009|pp=6–7}}</ref>