In botany, a rhizome is a horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes. Ginger is commonly used as a cooking spice throughout the world Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life A stem is one of two main structural axes of a Vascular plant. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. ROOT is an object-oriented program and library developed by CERN. Shoots are new plant growth they can include stems, flowering stems with flower buds leaves Plants with underground rhizomes include ginger, hops, and turmeric, significant for their medicinal properties, and the weeds Johnson grass, bermuda grass, and purple nut sedge. Ginger is commonly used as a cooking spice throughout the world Hops are the female Flower cones of the hop plant ( Humulus lupulus) Turmeric ( Curcuma longa) is a Rhizomatous Herbaceous Perennial plant of the Ginger family Zingiberaceae Johnson grass ( Sorghum halepense) is a plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to the Mediterranean region but growing throughout Europe Not to be confused with the vertebrate clade " Cynodont " Cynodon ( Greek "Dog-tooth" is a genus of nine species of Cyperus rotundus ( coco-grass, purple nut sedge, red nut sedge) is a species of sedge (Cyperaceae native to Africa Some plants have rhizomes that grow above ground or that sit at the soil surface, including some Iris species, and ferns, whose spreading stems are rhizomes. A fern is any one of a group of about 20000 Species of Plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta Rhizomes may also be referred to as creeping rootstalks, or rootstocks. A stolon is similar to a rhizome, but, unlike a rhizome, which is the main stem of the plant, a stolon sprouts from an existing stem, has long internodes, and generates new shoots at the end, e. g. , the strawberry plant. Garden strawberries are a common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide In general, rhizomes have short internodes; they send out roots from the bottom of the nodes and new upward-growing shoots from the top of the nodes.

For many plants, the rhizome is used by gardeners to propagate the plants by a process known as vegetative reproduction. Vegetative reproduction is a type of Asexual reproduction found in plants and is also called vegetative propagation or vegetative multiplication. Examples of plants that are propagated this way include asparagus, ginger, irises, Lily of the Valley, Cannas, and sympodial orchids. Asparagus officinalis is a flowering plant species in the genus Asparagus from which the Vegetable known as asparagus is obtained Ginger is commonly used as a cooking spice throughout the world Convallaria majalis, commonly known as the Lily of the Valley or Lily-of-the-Valley, is the only species in the genus Convallaria Canna (or Canna lily, although not a true Lily) is a Genus of approximately twenty Species of Flowering plants Orchids with sympodial growth have a specialized lateral growth pattern in which the terminal Bud dies

A stem tuber is a thickened part of a rhizome or stolon that has been enlarged for use as a storage organ. Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store Nutrients They are used by Plants to overwinter and regrow the next year A storage organ is a part of a Plant specifically modified for storage of Energy (generally in the form of Carbohydrates or Water. ^[1] In general, a tuber is high in starch, for example, the common potato, which is a modified stolon. Starch, CAS # 9005-25-8 Chemical formula (C6H10O5n is a Polysaccharide The potato is a Starchy Tuberous crop Vegetable from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae The term tuber is often used imprecisely, and is sometimes applied to plants with rhizomes.

The rhizome is a key metaphor in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Gilles Deleuze ( (January 18 1925 &ndash November 4 1995 was a French philosopher of the late 20th century Pierre-Félix Guattari ( April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French Militant, institutional Psychotherapist

References

1. ^ Kingsley R. Stern Introductory Plant Biology, 10th ed. ISBN 0072909412

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