Begonia Amphioxus #petriplants #tissueculture #planttissueculture #micropropagation #plants

This is my Begonia amphioxus ‘Red Dot’ grown from a single leaf cutting – and this is the part that blows my mind. 🌱 What you’re seeing here is a fully rooted leaf, and now a brand new stem is pushing straight out of the centre of the leaf blade. Not from a node. Not from the original stem. Literally from the middle of the leaf itself. Begonias can do this because of the way their cells work. Inside the leaf tissue are undifferentiated cells (basically plant cells that can switch roles). When y