A tuberous root (Ocymum tuberosum), an inhabitant of the hot plains, is frequently cultivated in Java.
It is propagated by planting pieces of the tuberous root, in each of which is an eye or shoot.
The root is of a roundish tuberous form, black externally, and of a deep, yellowish grey within, and varies in size from that of a walnut to that of a moderate sized turnip.
Brown), a curious herbaceous species of orchis, native of New Holland, is edible, and preferred by the aborigines to potatoes and other tuberous roots.
The large tuberous roots of the Canna are equal in size to the human head.
Salep is also obtained from the tuberous roots of Tacca pinnatifida, and other species of the same genus, which are principally natives of the East Indies and the South Sea Islands.
As the plant endures for a series of years, the tuberous roots serve at some of the rocky groups as a security against famine.
The genuine arrowroot of commerce is the produce of the tuberous rhizomata of Maranta arundinacea, a native of South America, and M.
It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.
A name for several species ofCyperus having tuberous roots.
These also have usually woody stems, or bulbous or tuberous rhizomes or roots, in which are stored reserves of starch, sugar, and other foods formed in the season of sunlight.
The growing of named tuberous Begonias is on the decrease, as so many excellent single or double flowered plants can be raised from seed of a good strain.
The greater number are hardy in most gardens, particularly if the crowns of the tuberous roots are planted about three inches below the surface of the soil, and the old leaves fastened together at the top to throw off winter rains.
In a few districts it is hardy, but it ought usually to have the protection of a frame in winter, or to have its tuberous roots stored in sand until spring, when it may be planted about three inches deep.
Generally those who plant Dahlias purchase the tuberous roots, because they give good strong plants, that flower freely without trouble or risk.
Those tuberous roots can be potted, and if kept in a warm place will soon start and make new plants.
Requires rich, gritty loam of good depth, as it produces tuberous roots 1 to 2 ft.
Take up bulbs and tuberous roots and dry them in the shade before removing them to the store-room.
Take up the remaining tuberous roots, such as anemones, ranunculuses, &c.
Beautiful plants with fleshy tuberous roots, which are the better if not often disturbed.
There are three kinds of Trientalis, much alike, perennials, with tuberous roots.
There are several kinds of Dentaria, smooth perennials, with rather large white or pink flowers and tuberous rootstocks.
The tuberous varieties are all perfectly hardy, and may be planted at any time from August to December.
The tuberous or bulbous rooted kinds do not require a rich soil; a sandy loam suits them, and they thrive in peat.
In potting the tuberous varieties, insure efficient drainage, and use a compost of rich light loam mixed with sand.
While growing, the Tuberous Begonia delights in a humid atmosphere, but this should be avoided after flowering has commenced.
The tuberous varieties are valuable as pot plants, not only for their flowers, but also for the distinctive character of the foliage.
These plants have tuberous roots, which are so acrid as only to be eaten by the wild-boars.
Many of these plants have a very unpleasant smell, and some of them have a tuberous root, which, when cooked, is eaten, though it is poisonous when raw.
Nearly all the British Orchidaceae have tuberous roots, which remain above ground, a new tuber being formed every year.
I have now only a few words to say on florists' Anemones, the tuberous roots of which most of my readers must have seen in the seed-shops.
Of bulbs which flower in the summer and fall, Gloxinias and tuberous rooted Begonias are great favorites and easily managed.
From a small tuberous root it sends up to a height of one to two feet a single crimson-tinted stem, which terminates in a long raceme of scarlet flowers, large for the genus and long enduring.
Our interior summers are more trying, and so far, few in the west have succeeded so well with the Tuberous Begonia as a bedding plant.
The tuberous Chervil resembles a short carrot or parsnip.
A tender greenhouse tuberous plant, sometimes seen in the window-garden.
Yet such a sight is not uncommon about the large eastern cities where the Tuberous Begonia is now used somewhat for bedding.
A handsome tender climber with tuberous roots, that may be taken up in the fall and stored in a cellar.
They are all herbaceous, with strong half tuberous roots, requiring little water while dormant, and a liberal supply when growing.
The tuberous and fleshy stemmed species are far more interesting to the discriminating inquirer than the common kinds.
The tuberous rooted and deciduous species must be very moderately supplied.
Arrow-root, a white powder, obtained from the fecula or starch of several species of tuberous plants in the East and West Indies, Bermuda, and other places.
Forms of it without tuberous roots are found wild, but whether indigenous to the place or degenerate from cultivation was for long uncertain.
It then gives off suckers which penetrate into the root, and, with the aid of the organic food thus obtained, forms a tuberous swelling on its surface.
The Tuberous Moschatel (Adoxa Moschatellina) is a very inconspicuous but an interesting little plant.
One is the Tuberous Everlasting Pea or Tuberous Bitter Vetch (L.
The student of plant life must always be careful to distinguish between roots and underground stems, for there are many examples of creeping and tuberous stems which resemble certain roots in general appearance.
Herbs mostly with tuberous roots, and conspicuous, irregular, perfect flowers in spikes or racemes.
Its popular names are due to the large, tuberous rootstock, which has somewhat the appearance of a chestnut, and is often eaten by country folk, and dug out of the ground by pigs.
The Orchids have rounded or palmate tuberous roots, a few glossy leaves which sheath the stem, and simple spikes or racemes of flowers, the prevailing colours of which are red, pink, green and white.
This is a native of North America, and is, therefore, hardy in this climate; tuberous rooted.
When the tuberousroots have become devoid of foliage they may be lifted, and if they have grown to a size exceeding 3in.
It has large, fleshy, semi-tuberous roots, and many of them; so that at any time it may be transplanted.
A hardy, tuberous perennial, from North America, whence most, perhaps all, the species of this genus are imported.
Sclerosing glossitis is the term applied by Fournier to a condition in which there is an abundant new formation of granulation tissue in the substance of the tongue, leading to the appearance of tuberous masses on the dorsum.
Stems leafy or bracteate, from a thick tuberous rootstock; flowers racemose; anthers 2-celled; stigmas linear.
Perennials, with sword-shaped or grassy leaves, and large showy flowers; ours with creeping and more or less tuberous rootstocks.
Petioles and peduncles all from the tuberous rootstock, the centrally peltate leaves and the flowers large.
Low perennial herbs, with a tuberous rootstock or corm, sending up a simple scape sheathed with the petioles of the simple or compound veiny leaves.
Tuberous and other roots are better kept in an airy place, where they may dry a little without being exposed to the winter's frost.
It is a plant with tuberous roots of a white colour, mostly eaten roasted, and, like the colocass, it is a favourite food of the farm labourer.
If you are given a tuberous root, you must put it five or six inches deep in the ground.
The bed should be made in October, and the littletuberous roots set two inches apart each way, with the point of the crown just under the soil.
Some tuberous plants, such as Dahlias, may be pinched with advantage.
The konjak is a tuberous plant of the family Araceae, extensively cultivated by the Japanese, a culture of which Vidal has given full details in the Bulletin de la Societe d'Acclimatation of July, 1877.
But, after all, the most important item of food, not only for ourselves but for our horses, was a kind of tuberous root, which grew in any quantity in the glens and even on the banks out in the open plain.
Our dish to-night was to be a Patagonian stew, the meat consisting of the tit-bits of the guanaco and ostrich, with a kind of tuberous root dug up by the Indians, and which is indeed a palatable adjunct to diet on the Pampas.
