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Each plant emerges from an underground rhizome in the spring before the tree canopy leafs out.
There is a report that indicates that amylase plays an important role in the anoxia-tolerant rhizome of Acorus calamus.
The medicinal part of zedoary is its rhizome, a fleshy stem that grows underground.
It grows from a creeping tuberous rhizome, a root-like horizontal stem growing just below the surface of the soil.
The main axis of each is a monopodial unbranched rhizome that grows plagiotropically, with little internode elongation, below the soil surface.
The thickened root, a rhizome, can be beaten into a lathery pulp which can be used for soap and shampoo.
In those species adapted to dunes or other sandy sites, the rhizome systems play an important role in dune formation and soil stabilization.
More in north, zone 9 and 8, they could be restricted with their rhizome at each winter, to push back spring following.
From an underground, thick, oblique rhizome, the short, green, succulent stipites arise, in a tufted form, and are crinite with brown, subulate, shining scales.
The sacchariferous tissues are developed especially in the root, as in the beet and carrot, in the rhizome, as in Gyperus esculentus, or in the woody stems, as in Acer and Syringa.
This mixture is based on black salt and asefetida, a resin obtained from the rhizome of the giant fennel plant that has a strong odor of onion and garlic.
An enormous rhizome has gradually replaced the genealogical tree of our roots.
The photosynthetic function is assumed by the stem, and the underground rhizome anchors the plant.
Indeed, eelgrass grows and extends through rhizomes, and for each rhizome, the stems grow out of the sediment.
But North Americans don't enter the world with a ginger rhizome in their hands.
The plant was regenerated as of next spring, since the rhizome would survive.
Only one rhizome will produce new growths and the seedling will reach 90 cm in diameter the second year under ideal conditions.
Let us remember that, by definition, in a maximal rhizome, all nodes can be in relationship with all the others.
It would also seem possible to eradicate the reed by cutting it at the base just before the nutrients feed the rhizome, around late July.
From the same family as ginger, the turmeric rhizome has been used for thousands of years in Asia especially in Ayurvedic medicine.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The root of golden seal is used in medicine under the name hydrastis rhizome, as a stomachic and nervine stimulant.
The rhizome, which is the officinal part, though yellow in the recent root, becomes of a dark yellowish-brown by age.
Where the stem of the Fern is upright it is properly termed a caudex, whilst in its horizontal form it is spoken of as a rhizome.
Scales of rhizome and stipes narrow, of firm texture and with thick-walled cells.
Both leaves and flowers have been used in medicine, but the rhizome is the part most frequently used.
The root or rhizome of potentilla Tormentilla, It is astringent and febrifuge, without being stimulant.
The rhizome is always solid, and has the usual internal structure of the monocotyledonous stem.
Fibrous yellow rootlets are produced from the sides of the rhizome.
They are increased by division of the stem or rhizome, or by seeds.
Measured variables included rootlet length, bud development, and rhizome mass.
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