Bulb
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In botany, a bulb is a short underground stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy. In gardening, plants with other kinds of storage organ are also cal
Shallot bulbs
Hippeastrum (amaryllis) bulb
Cross section of onion bulb
Bulbils form in the leaf axils of Lilium lancifolium
Corm
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Corm or bulbo-tuber is a short, vertical, swollen, underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ that some plants use to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and h
Bulb
…following year but then should flower normally in subsequent years. Plants that form underground storage organs, including bulbs as well as tubers and corms, are called geophytes. Some epiphytic orchids (family Orchidaceae) form above-ground storage organs called pseudobulbs, that superficially resemble…
Taro corms for sale in a Réunion market
Crocosmia corm with the tunic partly stripped to show its origin at the nodes on the corm cortex.
Crocosmia corm anatomy, showing tunic, cortex of storage tissue, central medulla, and emergence of a new corm from a bud near the top.
Crocosmia corm with stolons emerging through the tunic. The stolons originate at the axillary buds of the corm scales, and generally produce new corms at their tips