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Grafting is a very widespread and important practice. Grafting is possible with virtually all dicots and conifers. However, monocots are rarely grafted because they do not have the required vascular cambium. Monocots include palms, bananas, bamboos, grasses, pothos, philodendrons, tulips, daffodils, orchids, etc. Grafting is done on almost all fruit and nut trees, including apple, peach, cherry, pear, apricot, plum, citrus, olive, grape, avocado, persimmon, walnut, almond, macadamia, cashew, pistachio, and pecan. Other important grafted crop plants are coffee tree, tea shrub, rubber tree, and chocolate (cacao) tree. Grafting is done for many landscape trees and shrubs, especially roses, but also maple, flowering crabapple, dogwood, flower cherry, flowering pear, lilac, azalea, camellia, dwarf conifers, such as pine, hemlock, spruce, and fir, and many more. If a tree has a cultivar name, such as 'Bradford' flowering pear, it is often grafted. Most houseplants and flowering perennials are not grafted because they propagate easily from cuttings or division. Many can be grafted and may be as novelties, for research, or to provide disease resistant rootstocks.. One popular grafted houseplant is the novelty cactus with brightly colored tops grafted onto green rootstocks. Some expensive greenhouse vegetables, such as cucumbers are sometimes grafted. A tomato shoot can be grafted on a potato root system as a novelty. Most vegetables could be grafted but are not because they are much more easily and cheaply grown from seed. References Grafting offers endless possibilities Grafting Cacti and Succulents Other MadSci answers on grafting: Re: Can I Creat a new Plant with two other kind of plants Re: How do you graft a head of a plant and place it on roots and make it grow? Re: Is it possible to make Re: What elements are necessary for grafting?
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