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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Comparison to bulbs
- Cormels
- Cormous plants
- See also
- References
right|thumb|Taro corms for sale in a [[Réunion market]]
Corm or bulbo-tuber (also spelled bulbotuber) is a short, vertical, swollen, underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ that some plants use to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as summer drought and heat (perennation).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “corm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.