What is a bulb?

bonsaigai37@aol.com bonsaigai37@aol.com
Mon, 07 May 2012 07:13:47 PDT

Andrew wrote: "I am not sure what your reason was for asking the question about 
when theterm 'geophyte' was first used but I do know the answer that Merriam 
Webster
provides: 'circa 1900'."

As far as I know, RaunkiƦr wrote a treatise of plant morphology in about 1907 and used the word geophyte as a subclass of cryptophyte.  It's early but may not be the first mention.
Michael
Interlaken, NY Zone 6
 
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