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Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants - Propagation by Division
... ! Grass-like clumps "Grassy clumps" generally have strap-like leaves arising from an underground rhizome which is a thickened underground stem. The best known Australian plants in this group are the Kangaroo Paws ... , the best sized division comprises three or four leaf shoots with a good section of rhizome and healthy roots. With these the humid environment of a greenhouse or similar shelter is ...
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Division Psilophyta
... Psilophyta Division Psilophyta, Genus Psilotum Characteristics: 1. Underground rhizome 2. Unicellular rhizoids 3. Erect stems dichotomize into the main photosynthetic organ Left: Picture of ... the tri-lobed sporangia supported by specialized bifurcate leaves (sporophylls). Right: Diagram of underground stem (rhizome) with unicellular rhizoids. Go to Next Page for Lifecycle Return to Main Menu Kingdom ...
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Ranunculaeae Society
... have instead small bracts (cauline leaves), which are leaf-like, and have a somewhat woody underground rhizome, producing shoots with basal leaves, and flower stems devoid of leaves e.g. H. atrorubens ...
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all about Cymbidium Orchids and how to grow them
... think that they need dividing, then, using a sterile knife, cut the plant, at the underground rhizome to give divisions each of which should have not less than three bulbs. Using an ...
orchid.org.uk

Growing Bamboo in the Landscape
... landscape. Bamboo "canes," known as culms, grow from a branching underground root structure known as a rhizome. The branching habit of the rhizome determines the growth habit of the bamboo. Clumping bamboos ... the spring season: "Bamboo autumn." At about the same time, new shoots emerge from the underground rhizome. Within a matter of weeks, most of the bamboo shoots "telescope" into new culms. The ...
pubs.caes.uga.edu

Bamboo
... like grass that is naturalized throughout San Diego County. Like certain bamboos, it spreads by underground rhizomes and has many uses by people throughout the world. Clumping bamboos, such as the ... scaly, underground rhizome of giant reed (Arundo donax), a bamboo relative in the tribe Arundineae. Three developing upright stems are shown by the red arrows. The terminal end of the rhizome is upcurved ...
waynesword.palomar.edu

Orchids, orchid growing information, orchid care and orchid pictures - Bribie Island Orchid Society
... dead, decaying material. It has no leaves & feeds by storing starches, etc in its underground tubers. Also, possibly obtaining starches & other organic material from decaying roots of trees ... dead trees, from rainforest to the coast from central NSW to SE Queensland. Erythrorchis Cassythoides Underground Rhizome Erythrorchis Cassythoides Flower Bogle meeting Our meeting at the home of Doug & Kath ...
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Untitled Document
... epiphytes. Most grow in moist, shady locations. Typically, they form a clump that develops through underground rhizomes. The leaves of many pitcairnias and pepinias are spineless, while those plants with ... or, for many species, by detaching a piece of the underground rhizome (taking care to obtain a piece with roots attached). The underground rhizome can be severed by either using a knife or, in ...
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Daylily Dictionary: Rhizome
... Rhizome RHIZOME, RHIZOMATOUS: An underground stem which grows outward from the plant, eventually emerging above ground at the tip as a shoot; roots and additional shoots can also be produced along the rhizome. Said of a plant that sends out new plants from elongated underground stems called rhizomes. Example, H. Fulva "Europa" Return ...
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Open Directory - Science:Biology:Flora and Fauna:Plantae:Polypodiophyta
... spore-producing megaphylls ("fronds") arising from a stem. The stem can vary from a horizontal, underground rhizome to tall and trunk-like. The division Polypodiophyta contains three orders, the Ophioglossales, Marattiales and ...
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