Classification of Flower Bulbs

underground stems and roots of the morphological classification

1 Bulb

Bulb is a shortening of the disk-shaped stems, the Health and many more meat hypertrophy scales, scales from the bulb holds together.



Bulb, in part, grow and blossom in the process, consume all the scales in the dry material to shrink, and then next to the formation of new bulbs such as tulips. Also part of the bulb type, grow and blossom in the process, some nutrients are consumed scales, shrinking, part of the scale to continue piling up nutrients, bulbs continue to expand, such as lilies, hyacinths, narcissus, etc. Bulb bulb is divided into a skin and no skin bulb types.



There are bulb type flowers: hyacinth, tulip, lily, Lycoris, snow, mother of pearl and so on.



2 bulbs



Such underground stems generally spherical, with a membranous skin, stripped of skin you can see the raw large and small buds. This category are Gladiolus, Shegan and so on.



3 tubers



Rhizome generally spherical, flat irregular shape, such as cyclamen, Sinningia, Pulsatilla, etc.



4, root



Hypertrophy fleshy underground stems, buds was born in the festival, is the main type of flower bulbs are canna, ginger flowers.



5, roots and tubers



Root hypertrophy, a large number of nutrients stored within the root, such as the Dahlia.



Second, the classification according to planting time

1, spring planting bulbs

Planted in spring ball, closed ball fall, winter dormancy, such as planting spring Flower Bulbs. Such as canna, gladiolus and so on.



2, autumn planting bulbs



Fall planted the ball in the second year of the summer harvest ball, and then sleep, such as autumn planted bulbs flower flowers such as tulips, hyacinths, etc.



Third, the classification according to planting sites



1, the exposed root flower Earth



From planting to harvesting of the ball, done in the open, exposed earth known as the root flowers such as gladiolus, canna and so on. (Except for forcing culture)



2 greenhouse flower bulbs



From planting to harvesting of the ball, most of the time must be completed in a greenhouse, known as the greenhouse flower bulbs such as cyclamen, a small gladiolus and so on.