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The rhizomes, underground lateral stems, are a nutritious and energy-rich food source that when processed into flour contains 266 kcal per 100 g. They are generally harvested from late autumn to early spring.
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The above ground parts of Trilliums are scapes with three large, leaf-like bracts with the true leaves reduced to underground papery coverings around the rhizomes.
Japanese knotweed has a large underground network of roots ( rhizomes ).
They spread mainly through their roots and / or rhizomes, which can spread widely underground and send up new culms to break through the surface.
It is a perennial with underground rhizomes which send up new shoots at intervals.
The species with underground rhizomes and tubers can be propagated from these while other species are best raised from seed.
Cannas grow from swollen underground stems, correctly known as rhizomes, which store starch, and this is the main attraction of the plant to agriculture, having the largest starch particles of all plant life.
The starch is derived from the underground storage stems or rhizomes, which are plowed up, manually removed from the field and processed at the plant at Owia.
These grasses are found almost exclusively on the first line of coastal sand dunes ; their extensive systems of creeping underground stems or rhizomes allow them to thrive under conditions of shifting sands and high winds.
Marsh plants also tend to have rhizomes for underground storage and reproduction.
Plants with underground rhizomes include gingers, bamboo, the Venus Flytrap, Chinese lantern, Western poison-oak, hops, and Alstroemeria, and the weeds Johnson grass, bermuda grass, and purple nut sedge.
New plants can grow from seed, but in some populations, new stems grow from underground rhizomes that spread out around the Joshua tree.
The perennial species have underground rhizomes.
New growth develops from living tissues remaining on or under the ground, including roots, a caudex ( a thickened portion of the stem at ground level ) or various types of underground stems, such as bulbs, corms, stolons, rhizomes and tubers.
C. majalis is a herbaceous perennial plant that forms extensive colonies by spreading underground stems called rhizomes.
The most persistent of the perennials are those that spread by underground creeping rhizomes that can regrow from the tiniest fragment.
Ivies create a dense, vigorously smothering, shade-tolerant evergreen ground-cover there, that can spread through assertive underground rhizomes and above-ground runners quickly over large natural plant community areas and outcompete the native vegetation.
When preferred food items are not available, macaques will dig up underground plant parts ( roots or rhizomes ) or eat soil and fish.
It can spread vegetatively by underground rhizomes as well as by seed.
Most of the species spread aggressively by underground rhizomes and some are considered invasive species in areas outside their native range, particularly in North America.
The plant spreads by vigorous underground rhizomes which run along just beneath the soil surface, producing plantlets at the nodes.
However, Aegopodium podagraria readily spreads over large areas of ground by underground rhizomes.
They are mostly quite robust plants with thick, creeping underground rhizomes and large Rhubarb-like leaves during the growing season.
The plants usually have underground rhizomes or tubers.
This is a perennial grass which spreads underground by its thick rhizomes.
rhizomes and lateral
* Appendiculopsis-slightly elongated, short creeping rhizomes ; distichous, crowded, oblong leaves, at right angles with axis of stem, abruptly truncated at base, with a small petiole ; terminal or lateral inflorescence ; used to belong to the genus Appendicula.
These stolon-like rhizomes are long and thin, with long internodes and indeterminate growth with lateral buds at the node, which mostly remain dormant.
rhizomes and stems
All of the plant has commercial value, rhizomes for starch ( consumption by humans and livestock ), stems and foliage for animal fodder, young shoots as a vegetable and young seeds as an addition to tortillas.
It forms a grass-like clump of triangular green stems that rise up from thick, woody rhizomes.
They grow from this rhizomes and are often armed with prickles on the stems and / or leaves.
Some plants have rhizomes that grow above ground or that lie at the soil surface, including some Iris species, and ferns, whose spreading stems are rhizomes.
Both share a preference for plant matter, including roots, rhizomes, tubers, stems, leaves, fruits and seeds.
Their creeping, fleshy rhizomes grow offshoots, from which then emerge the 20 – 70 cm long stems during the next spring.
Virtually all types of shoots and roots are capable of vegetative propagation, including stems, basal shoots, tubers, rhizomes, stolons, corms, bulbs, and buds.
They eat the base of the above-ground stems of plants and often will dig through the organic soil for roots and rhizomes to eat.
These stems are called rhizomes.
It can also be propagated by division of its rhizomes, and the flower stems can be rooted.
Some species in the Cyatheales have tree-like growth forms, but others have creeping rhizomes ( stems ).
They grow from underground root-like stems called rhizomes and the foliage dies back down by mid summer ( summer dormant ).
The genus include plants without stems, growing from underground rhizomes.
* Ferns and many herbaceous flowering plants often form clonal colonies via horizontal underground stems termed rhizomes, e. g. ostrich fern Matteuccia struthiopteris and goldenrod.
Short stems grow up from extensive, white branching rhizomes.
Its rhizomes are slender and scaly, and stems are simple or branched.
Lily-of-the-valley ( Convallaria majalis ) has rhizomes that grow stolon-like stems called stoloniferous rhizomes or leptomorph rhizomes.
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