Beans ? Never seen anything other than wiry, stringy roots on those. Potatoes aren't listed either. After reading this, and the other couple of messages, I find myself confused about what could be, and what is, included in the geophyte definition of our group. In message <8CE7D90677A319A-C78-A043@webmail-d171.sysops.aol.com>, The Silent Seed <santoury@aol.com> writes >How about potatoes and other vegetables with storage roots? http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… "This page lists bulbous or geophytic genera or species whose parts are used as food or in cooking, or as a culinary or medicinal herb or spice." -- David Pilling email: david@pilling.demon.co.uk web: http://www.davidpilling.net/ post: David Pilling, P.O. Box 22, Thornton-Cleveleys, Blackpool. FY5 1LR. UK