grafting (propagation)

Numerous techniques of vegetative propagation in which complementary cuts are made, generally in a rootstock and scion, which are then bound together so that the two vascular cambia are in as much contact with each other as possible. The two parts fuse and, after some growth, function as one.

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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