Sentences with word «rhizome»
A rhizome is a type of root that grows horizontally underground. It spreads out and gives rise to new roots and shoots, creating a network of underground connections. It is commonly found in plants like bamboo and ginger. Full definition
The deep - yellow rhizomes of turmeric are a common spice used in Indian cuisine.
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Black cohosh can be propagated from rhizome cuttings and from seed.
If you are able to find turmeric rhizomes in the grocery store, you can make your own fresh turmeric powder by boiling, drying and then grinding it into a fine consistency.
However, during my research I uncovered a quote from W. Tang and G. Eisenbrand in Chinese Drugs of Plant Origin: «Capsaicin, the pungent principle of Capsicum species, was isolated from ginger rhizome.»
To find out how old the marsh in the Plum Island estuary in Massachusetts is, Kirwan dated fossil plant rhizomes — found in marshes but not open water — from 45 sediment cores.
Choose the powder rather than fresh grated turmeric if you don't want the full texture of the raw rhizome.
Turmeric powder stems from the dried rhizome of the Curcuma longa plant, whose roots are planted between March - April, just before the monsoon season kicks in.
Black coshoh can be reproduced by seeds, but the germination rate is very low, so the preferred methods of propagation are root divisions or rhizome cuttings.
«Miller's wall floor, and room objects in public and private space are space - scape pictures in the best sense, because they dare to grasp for the whole — of the world, of space, of the truth, and of the chaos, ramified like rhizomes — that we call life.»
[The largest known organism in the world is a large aspen stand in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, USA (aspen is highly clonal, connected by rhizomes).]
They can be easily distinguished from other ferns by their complex polycyclic stelar structure, often large, starchy rhizomes with fleshy or papery stipule - like outgrowths on each side of the petioles, presence of swollen nodes on rachises and often also on petioles, and eusporangia that are often fused and ligneous.
Turmeric is the dried ground rhizome of Curcuma longa Linn (106).
By acquiring soil bacteria, S. halepense increases the bioavailable nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil, and has increased rhizome production and aboveground biomass, which in turn facilitates its spread and establishment.
Bamboo has a horizontal root structure, known as rhizomes, and has been hard to commercially produce as as a horticultural offering.
He locates an exotic grass and points out the dense rhizomes that enable the plant to spread: an organic lesson about invasive species.
Another possibility is the import of infected rhizomes — the stems from which banana plants propagate.
By isolating five bacterial strains of endophytes found inside S. halepense rhizomes (subterranean stems used for storage and vegetative reproduction) and growing them in the lab in different mixtures of substrates, the authors determined that these microbes were able to fix and mobilize nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron.
In the centre of the marsh, however, the oldest rhizomes were just 200 years old, suggesting that until then Plum Island estuary was half marsh, half open - water bay.
Intending to make thousands of them, I discovered the college laboratory, where I tweezed the furry rhizomes of Davallia fejeensis into agar - filled test tubes, careful to keep my sleeve out of the Bunsen burner flame used to keep things sterile.
REPREVE Renewables LLC produces modified rhizomes of Miscanthus x giganteus, a sterile hybrid type of perennial grass, for use as a feedstock.
Though more commonly taken for medicinal purposes, dong quai rhizomes hold beneficial phytonutrientsare and are often used in Asian cooking.
Black cohosh is an herbaceous perennial that forms long leaves of up to three feet (1 m) in length and possesses a thick rhizome, or bulbous root, that can reach 24 inches (60 cm) deep.
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, Rhaponticin from rhubarb rhizomes alleviates liver steatosis and improves blood glucose and lipid profiles in KK / Ay diabetic mice, 2009
They also treat chronic coughs with a combination of fructus lycii, anemarrhena rhizome, lily bulb, rehmannia root and unibract fritillary bulb.
It may be surprising to know that the ginger plant not only produce tasty rhizomes or thick roots, which are well known for their medicinal and culinary uses, but it is also a beautiful ornamental herb.
This is due to the different processes the Panax rhizomes undergo, which result in different concentrations of active components and a variety of applications.
Berberine is an alkaloid extracted from Chinese herbs such as hydrastis cacadensis (goldenseal), berberis aquifolium (oregon grape), berberis vulgaris (barberry), berberis aristata (tree turmeric) and coptidis rhizome (huanglian).
Historically, Zingiber officinalis rhizome has been used for culinary purposes, as a flavoring agent, but the medicinal uses of ginger root can be traced back to China, 2,000 years ago, where it was commonly prescribed for treatment of gastrointestinal issues, the common cold, and ailments that reflect flu - like symptoms.
Ginger has a distinctive thickened, branched rhizome (underground stem) which sometimes looks somewhat like a swollen hand, and has a brown cork - like outer layer, and a pale yellow center with a spicy lemon - like scent.
Sweet potatoes, white potatoes, rutabagas and many other tuber / rhizome vegetables are very filling and give active people and athletes lots of the «good» carbohydrate energy they need for top performance.
For instance, ginger rhizome powder administered as 250 mg capsules four times a day has been demonstrated in studies to have equivalent effic...
The turmeric root and rhizome contain nutrients and bioactive compounds that are believed to support optimal health.
Turmeric Smoothie: Buy a small rhizome of raw turmeric at a health food store, wash it, and peel the skin.
The Curcuma longa plant itself has large green leaves, trumpet - shaped, yellow flowers, and yellowish - brown rhizomes.
(67) Others recommend taking dietary supplements formulated with BCM - 95 curcumin, a patented extract of curcumin rhizome that is enhanced with turmeric essential oils and standardized into a curcuminoid complex that is believed to have six times more bioavailability than standard curcumin products, according to one study, but further research is needed.
The Zingiberaceae family includes flowering plants, mostly aromatic perennial herbs, such as turmeric, ginger, and cardamom, which have tuberous rhizomes (underground stems with roots and nodes) that are often used to color condiments, used as a spice in South Asian and Middle Eastern cooking, used in textile dyes, used in religious ceremonies, or used medicinally.
Similarly, black cohosh, red clover, evening primrose and xiang fu (cyperus rhizome) are estrogenic herbs.
I had also taken a few hop rhizomes out on to the property and did some wild planting.
You never know what someone will find: lots of fish, a mouse, a squirrel, prickly pear cactus, violet, cattail rhizomes, water lily, acorns, wild onion — you're always hoping for a pizza, but it never comes.
Yet it is also vaguely reminiscent of Chinese landscape painting: a nonhierarchical rhizome, a «scene» of so many possible, imaginary landscapes, a «map» full of doors to immersion and contemplation.
The linearity of past media consumption has given way to an evolving planar rhizome with the advent of the internet.
His recent exhibitions include Rhizomes of Memory, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2000), Handsworth through Southern Eyes, Soho House Museum, Birmingham (2002 - 03) and Bearing Witness, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry (2004).
Kader Attia, the endless Rhizomes of Revolution, 2016.
The mushroom creates a dense mat rhizomes that capture and break down run off and bacteria from the chicken droppings.
To establish mondo, which is cold hardy to zones 5 - 6 in protected areas (against a house or under a tree) and spreads by underground rhizomes, start with plants placed every 6 to 8 inches apart in soil amended with 2 inches of organic matter worked into the top 6 inches of soil.
So it was with very little hesitation which I bought the follow up and it turns out this is also a fantastic game and one which has crept into my brain and planted rhizomes, utterly entrancing me for the last week or so.