Peter, The term "corm" is inconsistently defined by various sources, including a number of botanical dictionaries. The better definition, in my view, is one that can be usefully confined to bulb-like stems comprised of several nodes and internodes that are *completely exhausted and renewed each season*. Examples include Crocus, Gladiolus, Amorphophallus (not quite all), and many South African irids. "Bulb" can also be closely defined, which usually leaves "tuber" as the catch-all category for other geophytes. Calling a banana rhizome a "corm" is like calling a palm trunk a "caudex", which is an older use of a word now applied to very different structures. Dylan On 3 June 2012 16:00, Steven <hartsentwine.australia@gmail.com> wrote: > To answer your question on Musa Peter. > I have been told by commercial banana growers that bananas are a corm & > the plant is actually a stool... > > Steven : ) > Esk Queensland Australia > Summer Zone 5 Winter Zone 10 > > On 04/06/2012, at 1:38 AM, Peter Taggart <petersirises@gmail.com> wrote: > > I read on wikipedia that Musa havecorms, -stated with confidence. Perhaps > it is true? > Peter (UK) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- "*Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.*" ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton