HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Tubers grow underground, no matter if they are stem tubers or root tubers. An example of a tuber plant is the potato.

Detailed explanation-2: -The top sides of the tuber produce shoots that grow into typical stems and leaves and the under sides produce roots. They tend to form at the sides of the parent plant and are most often located near the soil surface. Irish potato is a stem tuber.

Detailed explanation-3: -tuberosum, with plants perennial, from tubers, without aromatic, glandular hairs, anthers dehiscing by terminal pores, and berry 2–4 cm in diameter).

Detailed explanation-4: -Tubers are usually high in starch. Examples are kūmara, potatoes, (storage root), yam, taro, Jerusalem artichoke and ulluco.

Detailed explanation-5: -The potato is a typical tuber, as is the Jerusalem artichoke. The term is also used imprecisely but widely for fleshy roots, corms, or rhizomes of other plants that resemble tubers-e.g., the “tuber” (actually a tuberous root) of a dahlia.