Vegetative multiplication of the Atlantic Rainforest species Eugenia involucrata

Abstract The objective of this work was to evaluate air layering, cutting, and grafting, with different indolebutyric acid (IBA) rates, for the vegetative propagation Eugenia involucrata. Air layering carried out two consecutive years five IBA rates. Cutting tested woody herbaceous cuttings, using four in three seasons. grafting methods – cleft graft splice were For trials experimental designs randomized complete blocks, completely a 3x4 factorial arrangement, randomized, respectively. Plants evaluated rooting, survival percentage, shoot development. In low rooting rates 0 50% observed, use showed no consistent results, resulting propagules survived after being transplanted. cutting technique survival, leaf retention effect Grafting 35 fixation, significant difference between techniques. techniques are not efficient E. involucrata, as they do favor seedlings. Grafting, by both techniques, is most method involucrata propagation.