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Flowering plant bulbs are planted beneath the surface of the earth. The bulbs need some exposure to cold temperatures for 12 to 14 weeks in order to bloom. [1] Flower bulbs are generally planted in the fall in colder climates. The bulbs go dormant in the winter but they continue to absorb water and nutrients from the soil and they develop roots ...
Hymenocallis / ˌ h aɪ m ɪ n ə ˈ k æ l ɪ s / [7] (US) or / ˌ h aɪ m ɛ n oʊ ˈ k æ l ɪ s / [8] (UK) is a genus of flowering plants in the amaryllis family native to the Americas. [9]Hymenocallis contains more than 60 species of herbaceous bulbous perennials native to the southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.
In gardening, a "bulb" is a plant's underground or ground-level storage organ that can be dried, stored, and sold in this state, and then planted to grow again. Many bulbs in this sense are produced by geophytes – plants whose growing point is below ground level. However, not all bulbs in the gardening sense are produced by geophytes.
Shallot bulbs Hippeastrum (amaryllis) bulb. In botany, a bulb is a short underground stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases [1] that function as food storage organs during dormancy. In gardening, plants with other kinds of storage organ are also called ornamental bulbous plants or just bulbs.
The species are native to Peru and Ecuador and widely cultivated elsewhere as ornamentals because of their large, showy flowers. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Ismene produces tender perennial bulbs bearing a strong resemblance to those of Hymenocallis , a genus into which Ismene had often been grouped in the past.
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