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VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION
ROOT TUBER STEM BULBIL GROWING BULB
Sweet potato Lily Grape hyacinth
(Ipomoea batatas) (Lilium sp.) (Muscari sp.)
Leaf Apex
Foliage of leaf
leaf Foliage
Petiole leaf
(leaf
stalk)
Stem
Flower bud
Stem bulbil Immature
developing spike (type of
Terminal from lateral Stem bulbil Peduncle
bud bud at base of (inflorescence inflorescence)
Aerial stem stalk)
stem Lateral Fleshy scale
branch leaf containing
Lateral stored food
bud
Fleshy scale
leaf containing
Stem
Root stored food
Root tuber
(swollen
adventitious Adventitious
root) Adventitious root
root
ROOT TUBER CORM BULB WITH SHOOT
Begonia Gladiolus Amaryllis
(Begonia x tuberhybrida) (Gladiolus sp.) (Hippeastrum sp.)
Remains of Shoot
flowering shoot New
New corm forming foliage Shoot
Food Shoot Protective at base of shoot leaf
store scale leaf
Apical bud Protective
(flower bud) scale leaf

Swollen stem
containing
Last year’s stored food Vascular
root tissue
Adventitious
Developing root
adventitious Aerial shoot developing Fleshy scale
root leaf containing
from terminal bud
stored food
RHIZOME
Ginger Stem Adventitious
Scale leaf (Zingiber officinale) Foliage root
scar leaf Scale Epidermis
Node leaf
Scale Cortex
Internode leaf
Scale leaf Developing
Node adventitious
root
Epidermis
Vascular
Food store Vascular tissue
Lateral bud
tissue
EXTERNAL VIEW LONGITUDINAL SECTION CROSS-SECTION
THROUGH AERIAL SHOOT THROUGH RHIZOME
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