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How to use rhizomes in a sentence

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The rhizomes, or root systems, of both genera, known as stigmariae, were thought to be distinct plants when their fossils were first discovered.
The role of starch reserves in tolerance to anaerobiosis has also been demonstrated in experiments on rhizomes of some wetland species.
These may be the best teeth for hard or rocky soil and for heavy infestations of quackgrass and other weeds with underground rhizomes.
Irises grow from thick, underground stems, called rhizomes, that store food produced by the leaves.
In addition, shrub roots and rhizomes grow into above-ground gaps, making below-ground gaps smaller than above-ground gaps.
The former probably show more vegetative reproduction, by rhizomes, corms and bulbs.
Bulbs are geophytes including flower-producing bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes with underground storage systems.
Despite their differing underground structures, corms, tuberous roots, and rhizomes are all referred to as bulbs.
Clonal progeny may be produced by stolons, runners, rhizomes, tubers, buds on bulbs, corms and roots, layering of stems, and agamospermous seed.
These evergreen giant herbs spring from rhizomes, flower, fruit and die and then regrow from a sucker.
Indigenous waterblommetjies, which are tuberous rhizomes, are excellent specimens for ponds.
This product is cheaper, has a better safety profile, controls both types of rhizomes and is rainfast after 2 hours.
It has short, creeping rhizomes from which new shoots arise each year, and is an attractive species with horticultural potential.
The flowers are probably wind-pollinated, and the plants can reproduce vegetatively by lateral offshoots, and by rhizomes.
In heavy clay soils, plant the rhizomes so the upper bud is no more than 1 to 2 inches below the surface.
He suggests that the link between plants and man lies hidden in primeval ecosystems inhabited by cycads, rhizomes and coral.
Most members of this lineage also have the combination of pseudomonopodially-branching main axes or rhizomes, with dichotomous branch tips.
If the soil is dry, give it a good soaking otherwise the rhizomes can be difficult to lift, especially when congested.
The rhizomes of zedoary are rich in starch, which is extracted from them in India as shoti starch.
Chicory rhizomes or roots are readily detected, upon fracture, by their radially arranged laticiferous vessels in the bark region.
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They are Indo-Malayan ferns with creeping rhizomes and long-stalked, fan-shaped, forked, leathery fronds.
The officinal part is the bark, which comes off from the rhizomes.
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