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Understanding bulb flowers |
Bulb flowers are beautiful and the easiest flowers to grow with many varieties to choose such as tulips, crocuses, daffodils, irise, lilies, daylias and snow drops. In Holland the cost of Tulip Bulb is so high, the Tulip is consider financial bubbles in history and consider flower exports in the world.
Today bulbs flowers are not costly in some part of the world, in regards to the 17 century Holland, but they are still favorites of gardeners with their beautiful colors, shapes, good scent and most bulbs are hard and easy to grow. Bulbs plants commonly grow in underground with its structures build underground - their structure provides nutrients and energy for them to grow.
There are five types of bulbs plants:
1. True Bulb - is an underground stem base plants containing an embryonic plant. Embryonic plant is contains the leaves, stems and flowers buds .It is surrounded by leaves that overlap in a manner such as reptile scale. The basal plate is found in the bottom of bulb, the plate holds the scales of leaves and produces the roots of the plants. The plant lie dormant when there's a drought or an adverse condition in the environment. Examples of varieties are daffodils, tulips and lilies. They can live for many years without having planted and must be properly handle, they are sensitive to dryness.
2. Corm - like a true bulb, contains a stem base but contained a solid base tissue. It lacks scales. The roots grow in the basal plate located at the bottom of the corm where the growth point lies at the top of the corm. Types of corm are gladiolas and crocus. They last for single seasons as the corm shrinks away another new corm grow at the top of it. Cornels are produced around the base of the corm's basal plate.
3. Tuber - an underground stem base that is like corm and bulbs but does not contains basal plate but the roots grow both on base and unto the sides. It has many growth points spread out over its top surface.
4. Rhizome- a thick stem that grows either part or completely under the ground. The largest growth point is located at one end and the growth points located along sides, sample of it is bearded iris.
5. Tuberous Roots - they are not a true roots, they have special adapted stem. Its fibrous roots are made to absorb nutrients and the water grows form the sides and the tip of the roots. They grow in cluster and swollen, their tuberous parts stems from centralized points. The growth points are found on the bases of the old stems and not on the roots of themselves example of daylies and dahlias are the examples of it.
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