“Each plant emerges from an underground rhizome in the spring before the tree canopy leafs out.”

“The thickened root, a rhizome, can be beaten into a lathery pulp which can be used for soap and shampoo.”

“The medicinal part of zedoary is its rhizome, a fleshy stem that grows underground.”

“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.”

“It has short, creeping rhizomes from which new shoots arise each year, and is an attractive species with horticultural potential.”