Vegetative propagation refers to the vegetative organs of higher plants-roots, stems and leaves, which develop into a new individual after falling off from the mother, such as creeping branches of strawberries, roots of thistles and leaves of begonia, which can all germinate from buds to form a new individual.

Plant tissue culture can only be described as asexual propagation, which comes from dedifferentiation and redifferentiation of highly differentiated cells.