Question: Can plants be cloned?

Richard Friend answered on 10 Mar 2016:

Yes! And the really weird thing is, is that it’s really, really easy to do! A lot of plants do it on their own, like strawberry plants, where they grow runners which develop their own roots. A lot of the time all you’ve got to do is to take a cutting of a plant, and put it in some decent soil, and it’ll grow on its own. Sometimes you can take a cutting of a plant and graft it onto another plant, and then you can end up with some kind of Frankenstein mashup of different sorts of plants. That’s how you can get one tree with loads of different types of fruit on it! Nature’s weird like that.