Encyclopedia > Rhizome

Article Content

Rhizome

In botany, a rhizome is a horizontal, usually underground stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Also called rootstalk, rootstock.

Plants with rhizomes include asparagus and lily of the valley.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Quadratic formula

... the parabola intersects the x-axis in two points.) If the discriminant is negative, then there are two different solutions x, both of which are complex numbers. The tw ...