21.   There are so many, so close together, that I am afraid they will crowd each other out and take nutrition away from the mother plant.

22.   They look almost exactly like a small piece of seaweed that has broken off the mother plant and has quietly sprouted eyes.

23.   Upon investigation I saw that the shoots were joined to the mother plant via underground yellow roots.

24.   When roots have formed, sever the layered shoot close to the mother plant.

25.   You can propagate sagos from offsets from the mother plant or from fertilized seeds.

26.   The intact father plant pollinates the detasseled mother plant, creating a hybrid that has genetic characteristics of both parent plants.

27.   The mother plant is in China.