Geophyte - an uncomfortable definition ?
Jim McKenney (Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:58:06 PST)

Diane, your trip through the vegetable aisle brought you close to what I
had in mind when I started this iteration of this thread on the definition
of geophyte.

The assertion I posed was "not all bulbs are geophytes". The bulb I had in
mind was Florence fennel, Foeniculum vulgare v. azoricum. I say it's not a
geophyte because the bulb is above ground (or mostly so).

Are bulbous epiphytes geophytes? Maybe we should call them "dendrogeophytes".

This is a hoot!

Jim McKenney
jimmckenney@starpower.net
Montgomery County, Maryland, zone 7, where any bulb not tucked down into
the ground will be a goner in this weather.

At 08:46 AM 1/25/2004 -0800, you wrote: