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At the behest of theBotany, the rhizome it's a stem horizontal and underground that contains buds, grows horizontally and from which roots and herbaceous shoots are born from its nodes.

Although the rhizomes grow indefinitely, dying in the course of a year, their most Also, each year, they produce new shoots, thus being able to cover important areas of land; meanwhile, the thickened branches usually have short internodes.

According to the growth and branching that they present to the rhizomes, they can be classified as follows: sympathetic (They are those in which each portion corresponds to the development of successive axillary buds; and the terminal bud of each portion will be the one that produces the epigeal bud) and monopodials (In these, the terminal bud continues the indefinite growth of the rhizome while the axillary buds are the ones that originate the epigeal shoots. This type is usually very characteristic of those invasive species or weeds).

It should be noted that the rhizomes can be divided into pieces that have at least one bud each, be planted separately and the plants that contain them become perennial losing their aerial parts on

Cold climates and conserve only the underground organ that stores the nutrients for the next season

It is common to plants of Mountain and where prevails the weather cold, For example, him common lily.

On the other hand, rhizome is a philosophical concept developed by the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the ProjectCapitalism and Schizophrenia. There, the rhizome is a descriptive model in which the organization of the elements does not follow the lines of subordination hierarchical, that is, presenting a base or root that gives rise to multiple branches, with any of the elements involved being able to influence the other. The concept is of course inspired by the botanical conception of it.

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