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Rid of cattails - Bog Garden Forum - GardenWeb
... area relied on them as the pollen can be used as a flour substitute, the tuber-like roots are an excellent source of starch and fiber and the fluff was used ... started to work around the periphery of the pond and pull them out. The long runners full of next year's shoots had no toehold in the ooze and came out ...
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getting Taro from the grocery store - Bog Garden Forum - GardenWeb
... . They cut off the leaves and sell them separately, but enough of the tuber is left that if you put them in water for a few days, ... make sure that they are in an area that you don't mind runners....some several feet long. When the soil warms up, up they come. Last ... nice contrast of foliage texture and colour. Thanks for the tip about the runners. My plan is to grow it in a container bog, so that won ...
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Gesneriads - African Violet Society of Canada
... has the added distinction of having stolons which spread the plant similarly to the runners of a strawberry plant. Aeschynanthus (Lipstick Plant), Columnea, and Nematanthus (Goldfish Plant) are other ... violets are Streptocarpus (Cape Primrose) and its trailing subgenus Streptocarpella. Tuberous-rooted Gesneriads A tuber is an enlarged storage area on the root of some plants. People familiar with ...
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Planting Lotus
... will see a runner and a tuber. Runners can turn into tubers but it is best to start with a tuber. Runners are long and thin. Tubers will have a growing tip that is pointed. This picture shows the tubers and runners that have ... once you have washed all the soil away for the tubers and runners. Use the same type of soil that you use for lilies. ...
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Louis Vogelpoel
... vegetative propagation. This results from a characteristic sequence of events. (Fig. 1) Firstly, a new tuber is produced annually by each mature plant so that by the time the flowered spike ... new tuber. This new plant, genetically identical to the old, emerges alongside the old spike in early autumn. Secondly, Disa uniflora and its allied species produce sto­lons or under-surface runners ...
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... alkaloids found in high concentrations in the foliage. Ireland was more receptive to the humble tuber. Due to ideal weather and soil, potatoes had become an important crop in Ireland by ... causes the stems to lengthen. Potato tubers form on runners that emerge from the plant stem, so the longer the stem, the more runners the plant will form, creating more potatoes. Start ...
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Plant Delights Nursery -- Arisaema, Arisaema, Arisaema
... , and A. ternatipartitum are good candidates for this mode of propagation. The small offset bulbs/runners can be snapped off and replanted at the end of the growing season in fall ... as the foliage unfurls. There is little that can be done, except to discard the tuber to prevent spread. Occasionally, this can be seen in the wild on A. triphyllum. ARISAEMA ...
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Root System explanations by Prairie Frontier
... perennials emerge from dormancy. Typical PlantsWestern Sunflower, Canada Anemone, Prairie Smoke, Wild Geranium, Bergotmot. Runners and StolonsOne of the simplest root systems, it has thick horizontal branches, from ... called "runners" and are referred to as "stolons" if below the ground. Typical PlantsSpiderwort TubersWhen the tip of a stolon produces a swollen storage organ it's called a "tuber." ...
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Scottish Rock Garden Club - Forrest Medal Winners Page
... it was lifted, split and this part grown in a pot. The tuber is rooted into compost at the bottom of the pot ant the ... habit is like that of a small strawberry in that it has numerous runners which form new rosettes where they meet suitable habitats. Its flowers are ... [more than 100] the flower stems were in perfect condition and all the runners had been kept within the body of the plant and its pan. ...
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