Hong Kong Garden-16View of flower bulbs

View of flower bulbs-----------Wong Man Sing
The view flower tuber flowers and plants' variety, compared to the view wood, observes the grass variety to be few. But the common flower is big, the color is gorgeous, a blossom is rich and is neat. The tuber plant refers to the plant underground part massive preserve nutrient, has perennial herb which the metamorphosis expands. Defers to the special preserve nutrient organ generally different, mainly has the bulb, the corm, the tuber, the root tuber and the rhizome and so on five big kinds
(1) Bulb: Refers lower part forms a stalk on the plate for the large contraction metamorphosis of leaf accumulation fruit in the reduction stem, spherical for example Narcissus, Tulip gesneriana .
(2) Rhizome: Subterranean stem large, festival and internode obvious. For example Hedychium coronarium, Canna indicia.
(3) Corm: The stem foot expands, assumes the solid sphericalness. By outline shape external coat periplast package. Renews every year calls the corm. For example Gladiolus hybridus .
(4) Tuber: The subterranean stem shape rule, every year large, do not have the name block stem which the external coat periplast wraps. For example Gloxinia, Caladium hortulanum.
(5) Root tuber: Root large shape line preserve organization. For example Dahlia pinnata , Ranunculus asiaticus .
The bulb flowers have two source areas one are the Mediterranean Sea coast winter rain area, is the fall planting tuber, is the autumn transplants, the winter inborn, the spring blossoms, the summer dormancy. For example narcissus, lily, hyacinthus orientalis. South of another kind acts in a reprehensible manner representative's summer rain area. Spring transplants, the summer blossoms, the winter hibernation. For example Dahlia pinnata, Canna indicia, Hippeastrum vittatum.
The bulb flowers can be naturally into the ball; therefore trough bulb flowers may grow very many minute, fresher more, pleasure infinite.