Rhizome
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In botany and dendrology, a rhizome is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes deve
An antique spurge plant, Euphorbia antiquorum, sending out white rhizomes
Stolons growing from nodes from a corm of Crocosmia
Turmeric rhizome, whole and ground into a spice
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
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.