New shoots appear near the parent plant.

【parent】那株亲代植物附近冒出了新枝。

It's called the hilum, and it's where the seed was attached to its parent plant.

它叫做种脐，是种子附着在母株上的地方。

So if a parent plant made spores, its offspring would make gametes, then its offspring would make spores, and so on.

因此，如果亲本植物产生孢子，它的后代就会产生配子，然后它的后代就会产生孢子，以此类推。

So to figure it out, I hired a plant tutor to teach me how to be a plant parent.

所以为了弄清楚，我聘请了一位植物导师来教我如何成为植物父母。

Many of them are the same that regulate how seeds become dryness-tolerant while still attached to their parent plants.

它们中的许多与调节种子如何变得耐旱同时仍附着在它们的亲本植物上是相同的。

Well, bananas are normally grown from suckers which spring up around the parent plant, usually just above the plant.

嗯，香蕉通常是从母体植物周围长出的吸盘中生长出来的，通常就在植株的正上方。

Giant hogweed plants that are on or near rivers can use the currents to carry their seeds as  far away from the parent plant as possible.

在河流上或附近的巨型猪草植物可以利用水流将其种子尽可能远离母本植物。

Well, bananas are normally grown from suckers which spring up around the parent plant, usually just above the plant. They tend to like to grow uphill or at least that's the common wisdom.

嗯，香蕉通常是由吸盘生长的，吸盘在母体植物周围生长，通常就在植物的上方。 他们往往喜欢爬坡，或者至少这是普遍的看法。