The underground stem of a club moss is called a rhizome. Rhizomes are horizontal, underground stems that produce roots and shoots to reproduce and spread.
It called rhizome
why are underground stems usually swollen? why are underground stems usually swollen?
The thick part of an underground stem like a potato is called a tuber. Tuber is a storage organ that stores nutrients and energy for the plant to use for growth and reproduction.
Potatoes are considered stems and not roots, because they are the part of the stem of the plant that grows underground, it's the part of the stem that thickens and accumulate starch.
ginger is called an underground stem or a rhizome because it looks and acts like a root but it is different from a root because it usually grows horizontally. Rhizomes usually produce aerial stems and underground roots from these buds.
Club moss or True Moss? ... Mosses are very primitive plants. They have no vascular system, meaning they have no stem, no way to support themselves, and no way to transport water and nutrients internally (phloem and xylem).
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Rhizome
Onion is an underground stem called a bulb. It grows horizontally below the surface of the soil, from which roots grow downward and shoots emerge above ground.
That is called a tuber.
No, yam is not an underground stem. It is a tuberous root vegetable that grows underground.
it's called a rhizome. :-)
It called rhizome
Tuber
why are underground stems usually swollen? why are underground stems usually swollen?
The thick part of an underground stem like a potato is called a tuber. Tuber is a storage organ that stores nutrients and energy for the plant to use for growth and reproduction.
Potatoes are considered stems and not roots, because they are the part of the stem of the plant that grows underground, it's the part of the stem that thickens and accumulate starch.