Was Bananas - now geophyte definition
James Waddick (Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:16:47 PST)

Lee wrote:
I never thought of geophytes as requiring an underground
dormant phase in order to be considered geophytes.

From the wiki "we include all plants with an underground
storage organ such as bulbs, corms, rhizomes, tubers. "

and

"This includes both cold hardy and tender bulbs, and all the bulbs in
between. By 'garden with' we also mean to include plants, shrubs, and
even trees that we grow as companions to our bulbs."

Dear Friends,
PBS has always been rather liberal in regard to topics
suitable for conversation here. I am sure Jim McKinney will explain
that strictly speaking 'Geophyte' refers to any plants that "grow in
the ground" . This as opposed to epiphyte, lithophyte etc. , but has
come to mean any plant propagated from bulbs, tubers, corms etc. as
indicated above.

We have extended this to companion plants, almost any plant
with a thickened, root, stem or other organs to include orchids,
bananas, peonies and many more such as related plants that don't fit
any of our criteria.

The only thing in common is that these plants do have a
thicken portion of their anatomy for food or water storage. They may
live on rocks, on trees, under water or any where.

I don't think there's many plants we have rejected with even
the most feeble of encouragement. The more the merrier.

Best Jim
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