Thank you Jim, You were referenced as having published material referring to corms of Musa earlier in this discussion, which is why I asked for clarification. I do find your reply informative as well as sensible and I am sure others do.. Peter (UK) On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:03 PM, James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> wrote: .... > So basically one has look beyond one extreme condition and > look at the whole plant or the whole family. Widen the focus from the > odd variation to the bigger scheme of things. > > I feel very confidant having look at banana rhizomes of all > sorts and read a lot of the literature, that all Musaceae and > Zingiberales have rhizomes. Some are very odd, but so is their > foliage, flowers, leaves etc. > >