Vegetative
27-Tubers
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| A tuber is a solid, enlarged, horizontal, shortened stem; it's a storage area for reserve food. Note in the center of the picture the production of young tubers arising from the rhizome. On the tubers, the so-called "eyes" are the nodes, where new shoots arise at the axil of a scale (modified leaf); these new shoots can give rise to new plants. |