Bulblet
A bulb and bulblet. Drawing by B. Angell.
Creator(s): B. Angell
Description: An underground bulb and bulblet. Note that bulblet is also used for above ground smaller structures that may or may not have the same structure as a bulb.
Rights: Rights reside with creator, otherwise property of NYBG.
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Title
Bulblet
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Definition
A small, short, more-or-less underground stem covered by enlarged and fleshy leaf bases which arises from a bulb, a bublet may eventially grow into a bulb; a bulblike, above ground structure, usually in leaf axils or sometimes in inflorescences.
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