tubers

The energy locked up in the sugars of nectar could have been used elsewhere in the economy of the plant, perhaps to make roots, or to fill the underground storage magazines that we call tubers, bulbs and corms, or even to make huge quantities of pollen for broadcasting to the four winds.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

The energy locked up in the sugars of nectar could have been used elsewhere in the economy of the plant, perhaps to make roots, or to fill the underground storage magazines that we call tubers, bulbs and corms, or even to make huge quantities of pollen for broadcasting to the four winds.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

I had bought the dahlia tubers from the regular grocery store, brought them home and buried them in the ground in [...]

2006 November « Salt and Pepper. 2006

I had bought the dahlia tubers from the regular grocery store, brought them home and buried them in the ground in [...]

2006 November 01 « Salt and Pepper. 2006

I had bought the dahlia tubers from the regular grocery store, brought them home and buried them in the ground in late spring.

D is for Dahlia « Salt and Pepper. 2006

Chufa, a common sedge with nutlike tubers, is a particular favorite.

What's on the Menu 2003

The common potato and true yam are such swollen underground stem tips called tubers, while the sunchoke and ginger “root” are horizontal underground stems called rhizomes.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The common potato and true yam are such swollen underground stem tips called tubers, while the sunchoke and ginger “root” are horizontal underground stems called rhizomes.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The tubers are the staple carbohydrate foodstuff in many Pacific Islands, where they are eaten boiled, steamed or roasted, sometimes with the addition of coconut milk, or they may be sliced and fried and eaten with sugar.

Chapter 29 1987

The tubers are the swollen ends of stolons arising from the crown of the plant; each stolon bears only one tuber.

Chapter 37 1987