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  2. Tuber - Wikipedia

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    Stem tubers manifest as thickened rhizomes (underground stems) or stolons (horizontal connections between organisms); examples include the potato and yam. The term root tuber describes modified lateral roots, as in sweet potatoes, cassava, and dahlias.

  3. Vegetative reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Tubers develop from either the stem or the root. Stem tubers grow from rhizomes or runners that swell from storing nutrients while root tubers propagate from roots that are modified to store nutrients and get too large and produce a new plant. [22] Examples of stem tubers are potatoes and yams and examples of root tubers are sweet potatoes and ...

  4. Stolon - Wikipedia

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    The nodes of the stolons produce roots, often all around the node and hormones produced by the roots cause the stolon to initiate shoots with normal leaves. [5] Typically after the formation of the new plant the stolon dies away [ 6 ] in a year or two, while rhizomes persist normally for many years or for the life of the plant, adding more ...

  5. Have you recently seen wild hogs? Here’s the signs of wild ...

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    An uprooted field, as the hogs will tear up the ground to eat various roots and tubers. Beds of palmetto fronds. This is where female hogs will keep their piglets.

  6. Underground stem - Wikipedia

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    A geophyte (earth+plant) is a plant with an underground storage organ including true bulbs, corms, tubers, tuberous roots, enlarged hypocotyls, and rhizomes.Most plants with underground stems are geophytes but not all plants that are geophytes have underground stems.

  7. Storage organ - Wikipedia

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    In some species (e.g. Cyclamen coum) roots come from the bottom of the tuber, suggesting that it is a stem tuber; in others (e.g. Cyclamen hederifolium) roots come largely from the top of the tuber, suggesting that it is a root tuber. [6] As an example of a combination, juno irises have both bulbs and storage roots. [7]

  8. This edible tuber has 'roots' in Caribbean nations | Mystery ...

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    The underground part is a tuber — a swollen, food-storage stem, much like an Irish potato. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...

  9. Rhizome - Wikipedia

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    A stem tuber is a thickened part of a rhizome or stolon that has been enlarged for use as a storage organ. [10] In general, a tuber is high in starch, e.g. the potato, which is a modified stolon. The term "tuber" is often used imprecisely and is sometimes applied to plants with rhizomes.