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In botany, a bulb is structurally a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy. [1]

44 relations: Allioideae, Allium, Allium vineale, Amaryllidaceae, Amaryllis, Apomixis, Asplenium bulbiferum, Botany, Corm, Crinum, Dicotyledon, Dormancy, Epiphyte, Food, Fritillaria, Gardening, Garlic, Hermodactyloides, Hippeastrum, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Iridaceae, Iris (plant), Iris subg. Xiphium, Leaf, Liliaceae, Lilium, Lilium lancifolium, Monocotyledon, Narcissus (plant), Onion, Orchidaceae, Ornamental bulbous plant, Oxalidaceae, Oxalis, Oxford University Press, Pickling, Plant stem, Prentice Hall, Pseudobulb, Root, Storage organ, Tree onion, Tuber, Tulip.

Allioideae

Allioideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales.

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Allium

Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants that includes hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives.

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Allium vineale

Allium vineale (wild garlic, onion grass, crow garlic or stag's garlic) is a perennial, bulb-forming species of wild onion, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and the Middle East.

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Amaryllidaceae

The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales.

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Amaryllis

Amaryllis is the only genus in the subtribe Amaryllidinae (tribe Amaryllideae).

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Apomixis

In botany, apomixis was defined by Hans Winkler as replacement of the normal sexual reproduction by asexual reproduction, without fertilization.

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Asplenium bulbiferum

Asplenium bulbiferum, known as mother spleenwort, is a fern species native to New Zealand only.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Corm

A corm, bulbo-tuber, or bulbotuber is a short, vertical, swollen underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ used by some plants to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and heat (perennation).

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Crinum

Crinum is a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants that have large showy flowers on leafless stems, and develop from bulbs.

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Dicotyledon

The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or more rarely dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants or angiosperms were formerly divided.

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Dormancy

Dormancy is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and (in animals) physical activity are temporarily stopped.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

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Fritillaria

Fritillaria (fritillaries) is a genus of spring flowering herbaceous bulbous perennial plants in the lily family (Liliaceae).

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Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture.

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Garlic

Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species in the onion genus, Allium.

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Hermodactyloides

The Subgenus Hermodactyloides of Iris includes all reticulate-bulbed bulbous irises.

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Hippeastrum

Hippeastrum is a genus of about 90 species and over 600 hybrids and cultivars of perennial herbaceous bulbous plants.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States.

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Iridaceae

Iridaceae is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the irises, meaning rainbow, referring to its many colours.

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Iris (plant)

Iris is a genus of 260–300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers.

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Iris subg. Xiphium

Subgenus Xiphium is a subgenus of Iris.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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Liliaceae

The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of fifteen genera and about 705 known species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016) of flowering plants within the order Liliales.

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Lilium

Lilium (members of which are true lilies) is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large prominent flowers.

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Lilium lancifolium

Lilium lancifolium (syn. L. tigrinum) is an Asian species of lily, native to China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East.

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Monocotyledon

Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants (angiosperms) whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.

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Narcissus (plant)

Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring perennial plants of the Amaryllidaceae (amaryllis) family.

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Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.

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Ornamental bulbous plant

Ornamental bulbous plants, often called ornamental bulbs or just bulbs in gardening and horticulture, are herbaceous perennials grown for ornamental purposes, which have underground or near ground storage organs.

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Oxalidaceae

The Oxalidaceae, or wood sorrel family, are a small family of five genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees, with the great majority of the 570 species in the genus Oxalis (wood sorrels).

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Oxalis

Oxalis is a large genus of flowering plants in the wood-sorrel family Oxalidaceae comprising about 570 species.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Pickling

Pickling is the process of preserving or expanding the lifespan of food by either anaerobic fermentation in brine or immersion in vinegar.

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Plant stem

A stem is one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant, the other being the root.

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Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall is a major educational publisher owned by Pearson plc.

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Pseudobulb

The pseudobulb is a storage organ found in many epiphytic and terrestrial sympodial orchids.

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Root

In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil.

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Storage organ

A storage organ is a part of a plant specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or water.

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Tree onion

Tree onion, topsetting onions, walking onions, or Egyptian onions, Allium × proliferum, are similar to common onions (''A. cepa''), but with a cluster of bulblets where a normal onion would have flowers.

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Tuber

Tubers are enlarged structures in some plant species used as storage organs for nutrients.

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Tulip

Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulb

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