bulbil (alt. bulbel, alt. bulblet)
A small bulb or bulb-shaped body, especially one borne upon the stem, and usually produced for asexual reproduction.
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Propagating bulbs from cuttings or by growing small offsets and bulbils to flowering size are popular ways to increase the number of your plants inexpensively. Understanding and mastering these processes require time, patience and practice.
Bulbil
Small bulb-like organ which sometimes forms in place of flowers.
Bulbil: A tiny bulblike structure, often found in a leaf axil.
Bulblet: A developing bulb formed on a mature bulb.
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BULBIL -- An immature small bulb formed on the stem of a plant; e.g Lily.
BULBLET -- An immature small bulb formed at the base of a mature bulb; e.g Hyacinth.
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Bulbil Small bulbs arising around the parent bulb.
Bulblet Small bulbs arising in the leaf axils.
What's a bulbil? When hardneck garlic grows, it makes a little mini-head of garlic way up on the stock. That's the bulbil. It's like a seed. It diverts your garlic's attention.
A lot of ferns produce bulbils on their fronds, and the Hen and Chicken Fern Asplenium bulbiferum is a particularly good example.
Bulbils grow on the stem in the axils of leaves or bracts. They may be small bulbs, as in some lilies, or leafy appendages, as in Alpinia purpurata (red ginger), Dietes iridioides (African iris), and Hemerocallis spp. (daylilies).
If you want to plant the Oriental variety of tiger lily, you will need to separate small bulbs called bulbils from the axils of the leaves of a thriving plant.
If left on, they eventually form small bulbils that can be planted to grow more garlic, but it takes 2-3 years for them to form large bulbs.
Sow herbs in large pots for winter. Sow seeds of lilies and propagate by planting bulbils.
Potting up
Pot up seedlings sown last month and move cuttings into individual pots when rooted.
food crop in the "garlic crescent" of eastern Europe and central and eastern Asia. These garlics still produce a flower stalk but rather than bearing fertile flowers, the stalk ends in an aboveground capsule containing small cloves or bulbils.
viviparous search for term- a. (L. vivus, alive; parere, to produce) producing young alive rather than in eggs, as in most mammals; multiplying by vegetative means such as buds or bulbils in the position of flowers.
 See also: Plant, Soil, Flower, Produce, Growing
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