1.0Glossaryhttps://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossaryGlossaryhttps://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/author/adminglossary/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="wBG7LnMbsq"><a href="https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/corm/">Corm</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/corm/embed/#?secret=wBG7LnMbsq" width="600" height="338" title="“Corm” — Glossary" data-secret="wBG7LnMbsq" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> https://www.healthbenefitstimes.com/glossary/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Corm.jpg250282Short underground swollen stem, a storage stem.Bulblike, underground storage organ formed by a swollen stem base.Swollen, usually spherical or rounded underground stem, capable of producing a new plant.Modified underground stem base, fleshy and globose, bearing scaly leaves and bulbs.The fleshy, bulblike, solid base of a stem, often rising out of a tuber or bulb.An upright, hard, or fleshy stem surrounded by dry scaly leaves, as in the gladiolus bulb.Short, thick, underground part of the stem serving as a storage device for the plant.Short underground swollen stem (not the leaf bases) for storage.A swollen rounded underground mass of so lid tissue at the base of a stem, eg, in a Crocus, not (as in a bulb) composed of layers of scales; each corm is of one year's formation, the next yea r's growth arising separately on top of it.A bulb-like organ, usually growing underground but without the scales (fleshy modified leaves) of a bulb, and often simply called a bulb by gardeners, such as gladiolus and freesias. When a corm flowers the old corm dies and the plant creates a new one on top of it; bulbs are usually more or less permanent structures.A bulb-like organ, usually growing underground but without the scales (fleshy modified leaves) of a bulb; a corm is in fact a kind of tuber, a condensed stem that stores food material, differing from other tubers in that it forms new corms at the apex and dies off behind at the base. Most cormous plants form a new corm annually. Gardeners often group cormous plants under the general heading of bulbs.A short, bulb-shaped underground stem of a plant such as the autumn crocus, a source of colchicine.The short, underground, bulblike base of a stem that lasts one year, that of the next year growing at the top of the old one.Specialized, fleshy stem bases that function for storage and reproduction.