In botany, apomixis (the original term apogamy had become confusing, but see below)'s replacement of the normal sexual reproduction by asexual reproduction, without fertilization. (The original definition didn't mention meiosis, although it's sometimes misquoted.) Thus "normal asexual reproduction" of plants, such as propagation from cuttings or leaves, has never been considered to be apomixis, but replacement of the seed by a plantlet, or replacement of the flower by bulbils are types of apomi… (More on Apomictic)