Corm
An underground storage organ - strictly a thickened portion of stem with a protective skin, the 'tunic'. Corms are planted like bulbs, but the original corm dries and shrivels up during the growing season and another new one forms above it.
Corm
A swollen, underground stem atop a plate-like base with one or more growth buds, usually bearing a flaky, dry, skin-like covering that preserves moisture. Corms appear solid, lacking visible structures inside.
Corm - A short, solid, enlarged, underground stem from which roots grow. Corms are food-storage organs. They contain one bud that will produce a new plant.
Corm: Enlarged, fleshy base of a stem, bulb-like but not solid, in which food accumulates.
Cucurbit: Plants in the gourd family such as cucumbers, squash, pumpkins or melons ...
Corm: A bulb like underground structure.
Corolla: The circle of petals, free or fused together, forming a flower.
Cotyledon: The first seed leaf to appear after germination of a seed.
corm
A thickened stem like structure which grows underground and produces roots, leaves and flowers during the growing season.
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corm
A thickened underground stem which produces roots, leaves and flowers during the growing season.
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CORM -- A swollen, underground stem base used for propagation; e.g Crocus.
COROLLA -- The ring of separate or fused petals which is nearly always responsible for the main floral display.
Corm - Often lumped as a bulb, and like a true bulb is an underground stem base, but is solid tissue rather than groups of scales. An example of a corm is freesia.
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CORM - This is a swollen, underground stem base used for propagation: e.g. Crocus.
COTYLEDON - The first set of leaves to grow after a seed has germinated.
corm An underground storage organ consisting of the swollen base of a stem with roots attached to the underside. Crocus and gladiolus are examples of plants that form corms. See bulb, tuber, rhizome.
Corm
The corm is the base of a stem that becomes swollen, and solid, with food for it to live on. It is usually covered by a type of tunic, somewhat like that which covers the bulb and there is a basil plate from which new roots grow.
Corm
A solid bulblike organ
Cross-Pollination
When pollen transfers from the flower of one plant to that of another. Generally used to refer to a situation where varieties mix by such means.
Corm
A mass of stored food consisting of roots at the base and flower buds at the top
Cutting ...
A corm with a diameter of 3 - 4 cm is an ideal size. Before planting remove the tunic or dry skin that covers the corm. It is a perfect harbour for one of the worst pests of the gladiolus, thrips.
What is a Plant Corm?
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corm search for term- n. (L. cormus; Gr. kormus, the trunk of a tree with the boughs lopped off) an enlarged solid subterranean stem, often rounded in shape but of no distinct characteristic shape or size in some species, filled with nutrients, ...
In spring, repot plants in new soil positioning the corm at the same depth it was growing before. Note that the older corms of large plants may be a third to halfway out or the soil.
Dierama is a half-hardy corm native to the cool, grassy plains and mountainous slopes of southern Africa.
When the sweet-fragrant flowers start to fade, pinch off the dry flower heads, fertilize and let the foliage continue to grow as it will replenish the corm with next years nutrients.
Make a diagonal cut through the corm, leaving at least 4 leaves on the corm, and place immediately in the water. Cut when only a few flowers are open. The rest will open subsequently up the spike. Store in a cool, dark place for the blooms to harden.
Crocosmia are easy to grow, corm type plants that are related to the Iris. They produce a stalk of brilliantly colored, tube shaped flowers that open sequentially up the stem from July until the first hard frost.
In early morning or evening, use a sharp knife or scissors to cut the stems, leaving at least four leaves on the plant to nourish the corm and guarantee blooms next planting season.
If a plant grows from a bulb, corm, tuber, or tuberous root, chances are it is sun- and drought-tolerant. Perennials with deep taproots are also good choices.
It always seems like a bit of magic that a simple tuber, bulb or corm can erupt into astoundingly colorful flowers. So when you're plotting how your garden is going to look this summer, don't forget to include the bulbs for summer-blooming flowers.
Cyclamen can be carried over, but as with the poinsettia, homegrown plants are seldom equal to those grown by a commercial grower. Let the plants die down after they finish flowering. Repot the fleshy corm in June with the top of the corm above the ...
When cutting a flower spike leave at least four or five leaves on the plant, otherwise the corm will be deprived of its source of nourishment.
Beet seeds are somewhat bigger than the seeds of other root crops, and they look like bits of cork. Each one is actually a cluster (or corm) with three or four seeds.
Colchicum flowers and bulbs are generally larger, with six stamens in the centers of the blooms. Crocuses have only three stamens. The flowering stems of colchicums are naked of any leaves, while multiple blooms, 6 to 12 per corm, ...
 See also: Plant, Flower, Growing, Soil, Water
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