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Rhizomes

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Rhizomes meaning

plural of rhizome

Example sentences (20)

Grass weeds can out compete the newly planted rhizomes and the appropriate management steps must be taken.

Both lily turf and Natal lily spread by underground rhizomes so their territory in the garden will expand from year to year.

Gingers and cannas are familiar rhizomes.

Many grass varieties in our area have rhizomes, or belowground stems, which makes recovering from damage more likely.

Phragmites is a perennial grass from Europe and is rapidly spread by seed and root fragments (rhizomes) carried by wind, waves, vehicles, heavy equipment, and people.

Try digging them all out with a very sharp hand trowel - and follow the rhizomes, pulling them up as you go.

Over a four-year period, the team made a collection of modern rhizomes and geophytes from the Lebombo area, to compare those to the ancient charred specimens.

Plant rhizomes about three to four inches below the soil.

The rhizomes are rich in starch and would have been an ideal staple plant food.

I like to break or cut the older rhizomes apart so that each new clump has three to five foliage fans.

Basket weavers preferred long, straight, unbranched roots and rhizomes.

Or join other enthusiastic gardeners who have had success rooting the rhizomes they have purchased at the grocery store to start new plants.

Since irises spread through underground stems called rhizomes, they’re in labeled pots to keep them separate.

Clumping bamboo species tend to spread slowly, as the growth pattern of the rhizomes is to simply expand the root mass gradually, similar to ornamental grasses.

Gardeners often grow it in pots or planters due to its invasive, spreading rhizomes.

Ginger in Oxford Dictionary of English Young ginger rhizomes are juicy and fleshy with a very mild taste.

In addition, rhizomes can escape over the top, or beneath the barrier if it is not deep enough.

It is a perennial with underground rhizomes which send up new shoots at intervals.

Its rhizomes can survive temperatures of convert and can extend convert horizontally and convert deep, making removal by excavation extremely difficult.

Some of the hardiest bamboo species can be grown in places as cold as USDA plant hardiness zones 5–6, although they typically defoliate and may even lose all above-ground growth, yet the rhizomes survive and send up shoots again the next spring.