dedeleco wrote:the cutting retains the characteristics of the mother plant, genetic, typological and its age.
Not always true for age, Parts and accessories a lot of plants have multiplied by cutting or layering for so long that they have forgotten their age !!
example fig trees for millennia, biannual plants, which live much longer than 2 years, brambles or blackberries, raspberries, etc ... even hazel trees, etc ...
a Fig tree can quite germinate, and can die of old age, that's what I said about Geranium, it is not a perennial but we keep them alive for unnatural periods.
also notes that some subjects of redwoods, oaks, pine, which do not multiply vegetatively are several thousand years old.