| It may be a short rhizome, even a very short rhizome. It might make multiple leads as some Catt plants do. However, it is a rhizome. That doesn't make anything said by anyone in this thread significantly incorrect, just technically incorrect
Technically these plants expand via rhizomes. The horizontal portion of the plant stem is a rhizome (regardless of its length or lack thereof). The upright portion is the ramicaul in herbaceous plants that don't form woody, barked stems. Some ramicauls form pseudobulbs in certain internodes, some don't. Encylias do. |