proliferous

[ pruh-lif-er-uh s ]

/ prəˈlɪf ər əs /

proliferating.

Botany.

producing new individuals by budding or the like.
producing an organ or shoot from an organ that is itself normally the last, as a shoot or a new flower from the midst of a flower.

Origin of proliferous

1645–55; < Medieval Latin prōlifer bearing offspring + -ous. See prolicide, -ferous

non·pro·lif·er·ous, adjective un·pro·lif·er·ous, adjective

In some of these plants the flower-heads were also proliferous.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) |Charles Darwin
Here grew the Masarooth (Selinum palustre) with a proliferous umbel.

Lachesis Lapponica |Carl von Linn
The herbs I collected hereabouts were Mesomora (Cornus suecica) with a proliferous blossom.

Lachesis Lapponica |Carl von Linn
On the other hand, Verlot gives several cases of proliferous flowers which can be propagated by seed.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) |Charles Darwin

In proliferous flowers the pistil is often completely defective, its place being occupied by the adventitious bud or axis.

Vegetable Teratology |Maxwell T. Masters

proliferous

/ (prəˈlɪfərəs) /

(of plants) producing many side branches or offshoots and normally reproducing vegetatively by buds or by plantlets produced in the inflorescence

(of certain animals) reproducing by means of buds, etc

C17: from Medieval Latin prōlifer having offspring