On Jun 3, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Peter Taggart <petersirises@gmail.com> wrote: > Surely you mean that the minimum order is 50 corms for $34.50 > I have never yet, to my knowlege, seen a Freesia "bulb". > -no wonder people get confused..... I read on wikipedia that Musa have > corms, -stated with confidence. Perhaps it is true? but I found the fact > surprising. > The quote was for "bulbs" because that is how the catalog source listed it. Most of the larger resellers do not cater to the gardeners that know the difference between a bulb and a corm. These people would be confused with the different distinctions, especially when a genus may contain species with bulbs and others with rhizomes, etc. On a side most Musaceae spp have corms with the exception of a few Musa such as M laterita and the relatively new M siamensis, these have rhizomes. Tim Chapman