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2. Rhizome - Wikipedia

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   In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (/ ˈ r aɪ z oʊ m / RY-zohm) [note 1] is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. [3] Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots ...

3. 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. Geophytes are often physiologically active even when they lack leaves.

4. Tuber - Wikipedia

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   The offspring or new tubers are attached to a parent tuber or form at the end of a hypogeogenous (initiated below ground) rhizome. In the autumn the plant dies, except for the new offspring tubers, which have one dominant bud that in spring regrows a new shoot producing stems and leaves; in summer the tubers decay and new tubers begin to grow.

5. Storage organ - Wikipedia

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   In common parlance, underground storage organs may be generically called roots, tubers, or bulbs, but to the botanist there is more specific technical nomenclature: A harvested ginger rhizome. True roots: Storage taproot – e.g. carrot; Tuberous root or root tuber – e.g. Dahlia [4] Modified stems:

6. Root vegetable - Wikipedia

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   Rhizome. Curcuma longa (turmeric) Panax ginseng (ginseng) Alpinia galanga (galangal) Arthropodium spp. (rengarenga, vanilla lily, and others) Canna spp. (canna) Cordyline fruticosa (ti) Maranta arundinacea (arrowroot) Nelumbo nucifera (lotus root) Typha spp. (cattail or bulrush) Zingiber officinale (ginger) Yam tubers. Tuberous stem. Apios ...

7. Ornamental bulbous plant - Wikipedia

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   Ornamental bulbous plants, often called ornamental bulbs or just bulbs in gardening and horticulture, are herbaceous perennials grown for ornamental purposes, which have underground or near ground storage organs. Botanists distinguish between true bulbs, corms, rhizomes, stem tubers and tuberous roots, any of which may be termed "bulbs" in ...