https://emsenn.net/tags/vegetativereproduction/ Recent content in VegetativeReproduction on emsenn.net Hugo en-us Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/science/domains/biology/domains/botany/terms/rhizome/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/science/domains/biology/domains/botany/terms/rhizome/ <p>A rhizome is a modified stem that grows horizontally below the soil surface, producing adventitious <a href="root.md" class="link-internal">roots</a> from its lower surface and aerial shoots from its nodes. Despite growing underground, a rhizome is a stem, not a root — it has nodes, internodes, scale leaves, and axillary buds, features that true roots lack. The distinction matters: rhizomes store starch and nutrients in stem parenchyma tissue, generate new shoots from meristematic buds at each node, and can regenerate a complete plant from a fragment containing as little as a single node.</p>