Living · 6 pages · 12 min
How a bulb stores a season
A bulb is a packed bud and a food store, built in one season and spent in the next.
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From the opening
A bulb is an underground store made mostly of fleshy leaves or leaf bases wrapped around a short stem and a bud. The plant fills those scales during the growing season and then uses the store to emerge quickly the next time conditions suit it. The opening covers scales are packed storage leaves, the flower spends last year's store, and green leaves refill the next bulb.
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Inside
- Scales are packed storage leaves
- The flower spends last year's store
- Green leaves refill the next bulb
- Corms and tubers are different organs
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Bulb scales as modified storage leaves
- The distinction among bulbs, corms, and tubers