Sentences with phrase «underground rhizomes»
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.
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We should point out immediately that technically, ginger is not a root but rather a rhizome, an underground stem that looks like a tuber — or a thick root.
In addition, the new species» one - to - four inflorescences — flower - bearing structures — are produced on a shoot that extends along the ground from an underground stem (rhizome), a very unusual plant character.
Among herbal medicine practitioners, the most prized part of this plant is the rhizome, or its underground thick roots, which contain most of its active compounds.
It is cultivated in tropical countries for the thick, rounded, underground stems or rhizomes, which constitute the spice, turmeric.
The underground stem or rhizome is the most valuable part of the plant.
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.
Turmeric rhizome is the thick orange horizontal stem of the plant, found underground in a cluster with thin roots shooting out from underneath its various nodes.
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.
The rhizome (underground part of the stem) is the part commonly used as a spice.
By this time the rhizomes (or roots) of the fungus have already covered acres underground.
Because it is sterile, Long and his colleagues had to plant rhizomes, its underground stems, which took a long time.