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stolon; stoloniferous stem

A specialized, slender, horizontal, elongate, creeping stem initiating from the base of a plant, and having minute leaves at its nodes, also rooting at the nodes, and developing new plantlets/plants that will eventually root and separate from the mother plant (a colonizing organ that enables a plant to reproduce, producing new clone plants that may surround it)

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