Re: CULT: Suberization
- Subject: Re: [iris] CULT: Suberization
- From: "Donald Eaves" d*@eastland.net
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 11:16:13 -0600
- List-archive: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris/> (Web Archive)
Walter,
An old Webster's dictionary defines suberization:
'conversion of the cell walls into corky tissue by infiltration with
suberin'
suberin is then defined as:
'a complex fatty substance that is the basis of cork'
Not much help, I'm afraid. Maybe as a rhizome is drying, suberin builds up
and the rhizome is more corky than starchy. Sort of a suspended growth
situation that prevents decay?
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA
-----Original Message-----
>I have been reading a report on an 'iris study,' and the use of the
>term suberization is scattered throughout the report. The author
>assumes the reader knows what the term means in relation to
>irises. It is never defined.
>
>The term is not in TWOI. I searched in Mallorn and found no
>reference. From the context of the report, it appears to me to refer
>to the time rhizomes have been out of the ground before planting
>- a curing process. Anyone know for sure?
>
>Walter Moores
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