What are the five kinds of seeds?
What is consciousness together with its nutriment, that forms five kinds of seeds? What five?

From Ven. Bodhi's note in &quot;Middle Length Discourses&quot;:

Nutriment (ahara) is to be understood here in a broad sense as a prominent condition for the individual life-process. Physical food(nurture the body), contact (nurture feeling), mental volition (nurture consciousness to manifest to 3 realms of existence: sense, form, and formless worlds), consciousness (nurture name/form or mentality/materiality at rebirth, the psycho-physical organism in its totality); these are the elements that help perpetuating samsara; Craving is the origin of nutriment since craving of the previous existence is the source of the present individuality with its dependence upon and continual consumptions of the four nutriments in this existence.

Also from Ven. Bodhi's note:

&quot;Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of seeds. What five? Root-seeds, stem-seeds, joint-seeds, cutting-seeds, and germ-seeds as the fifth&quot;[73] The five kinds of seeds (bija) are actually five means of propagation. Spk gives examples of the five kinds drawn from Vin IV 35.

And From Ven. Thanissaro's &quot;The Buddhist Monastic Code&quot;:

The Vibhaºga defines bhÒtag›ma as vegetation arising from any of five
sources:


from bulbs, rhizomes, or tubers (e.g., potatoes, tulips),
from cuttings or stakes (e.g., willows, rose bushes),
from joints (e.g., sugar cane, bamboo),
from runners (e.g., strawberries, couch grass), or
from seeds (e.g., corn, beans).