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What is a tuber?

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Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store nutrients. They are used by plants to overwinter and regrow the next year and as a means of asexual reproduction. Two different groups of tubers are: stem tubers, and root tubers

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Parts of the root that get swollen and engorged with starch. Potatoes are tubers, NOT vegetables.

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Tubers are modified plant structures that are meant to store nutrients. Examples include the Idaho potato, Jerusalem artichoke and sweet potato. The daylily also has unedible tubers.

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