Gardening Jargon – Rhizome

A modified plant stem which grows horizontally, under the surface of the soil. New growth then emerges from their nodes.
Vegetables & Herbs Rhizomes

• Ginger
• Turmeric
• Galangal
• Nelumbo nucifera (lotus root)
• Rhubard
• Ginseng
• Fingerroot (Boesenbergia rotunda)

Invasive Rhizomes

• Creeping Charlie
• Horsetails
• Japanese knotweed
• Poison ivy
• Golden hops
• Stinging nettle
• lily-of-the-valley
• Bamboo
• Bugleweed
• Chinese lanterns
• Liriope
• Nandina domestica
• Papyrus
• Plume poppy
• Tansy
• Virginia creeper
• Yellow archangel

Cana lily (flowering plant) is beautiful and known as well-behaved Rhizomes
In landscaping

• Not good for low maintenance garden
• Usually used for ground cover

Note – Removing Rhizome can be tedious task

Readers if you know any other rhizomes to be added or you think list if not correct please drop in your comments.

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Happy Gardening!