Corm of a Crocus

The investing sheaths or dead leaf-bases striped off. The faint cross-lines represent the scars, where the leaves were attached, i.e. the nodes: the spaces between are the internodes. The exhausted corm of the previous year is underneath; forming ones for next year on the summit and sides.

Keywords

Botany, roots, bulbs, plants

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Flowers and Shrubs: C

Source

Asa Gray The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Co., 1887)

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