Re: Tuber vs. Corm
- To: lindsey@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Tuber vs. Corm
- From: M*@t-online.de (Ihr Name)
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:20:49 -0600
First of all how do you define a corm, did you mean the botanical
terminus "cormus"?
If yes, then in my opinion the corm is the wrong word.
What I learned was that the corm (cormus) means an organism which had a
stem and a leaf. Those plants (and all higher Plants are so called)
where called Cormophytes. The Cormophytes where opposed to the
Thallophytes.
Then is there the word tuber:
My definition for a tuber is that the axle is swollen and have the
function as nutritive depot and the leafs where reduced to thin squamous
elements. For example tubers are: Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum,
Topinambur (Helianthus tuberous) or Colchicum.
In Germany is another term existing. It is called "Wurzelknollen" I did
not know the English word but translated it means "Root tubers".
You find it for example in Genus "Orchis".
The difference to tubers is the lacking of the reduced leafs and the
existing of a Calyptra also another inner structure.
Hoping the definitions would help a little bit.
What never in the Araceae appears are bulbs.
Thomas Mottl
moto_do@t-online.de
