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In horticulture, a " cutting " is a piece that has been cut off from a mother plant and then caused to grow into a whole plant.

Often this involves a piece of stem that is treated with rooting liquid or powder containing hormones.

In some species root cuttings can produce shoot growth.

When the cutting has become a self-sufficient plant, it is genetically identical to the mother plant except when chimeric tissues or similar complications affect the outcome.