Everything about Rhizome totally explained
In
botany, a
rhizome is a horizontal
stem of a
plant that's usually found underground, often sending out
roots and
shoots from its nodes. Plants with underground rhizomes include
ginger,
hops, and
turmeric, significant for their medicinal properties, and the weeds
Johnson grass,
bermuda grass, and
purple nut sedge. Some plants have rhizomes that grow above ground or that sit at the soil surface, including some
Iris species, and
ferns, whose spreading stems are rhizomes. Rhizomes may also be referred to as creeping rootstalks, or rootstocks. A
stolon is similar to a rhizome, but, unlike a rhizome, which is the main stem of the plant, a stolon sprouts from an existing stem, has long internodes, and generates new shoots at the end, for example, the
strawberry plant. In general, rhizomes have short internodes; they send out roots from the bottom of the nodes and new upward-growing shoots from the top of the nodes.
For many plants, the rhizome is used by gardeners to propagate the plants by a process known as
vegetative reproduction. Examples of plants that are propagated this way include
asparagus,
ginger,
irises,
Lily of the Valley,
Cannas, and
sympodial orchids.
A stem
tuber is a thickened part of a rhizome or
stolon that has been enlarged for use as a
storage organ. In general, a tuber is high in
starch, for example, the common
potato, which is a modified stolon. The term tuber is often used imprecisely, and is sometimes applied to plants with rhizomes.
The rhizome is a key metaphor in the
philosophy of
Gilles Deleuze and
Felix Guattari.
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