At 09:50 PM 3/22/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Reese wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Blank Frank wrote:
Only JC would introduce a tuber into a discussion of roots and branches.
Root == Tuber is attributable to Amiee? I hope she calls it a Choatism, another fine example of Choatesque speech, or Choate- speak for short. ;)
A 'tuber' is a swelling on a 'stem' (that in the case of a potato happens to be underground. A stem is a 'stalk' that bears flowers, fruits, potato eyes, etc. A stalk is simply a cylindrical 'body' (the thing the xylem and floem are in). And if you look up 'tuber' and 'potato' you'll find them listed in 'root and tuber crops'.
Gee, I thought a potato was a tuber that formed from a rhizome. You will want to notify these folks so they can update their webpage, as well pass the word to the references they cite. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotech/potato.html A rhizome is a somewhat elongated usually horizontal subterranean plant stem that is often thickened by deposits of reserve food material. It produces shoots above and roots below, and is distinguished from a true root in possessing buds, nodes, and usually scalelike leaves. Rhizome |= root, potato |= root.
You guys failed Botany 101, clearly.
Clearly. Reese