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A _____ is a horizontal stem that can divide and grow in several directions at once. corm rhizome stolon bulb

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A rhizome is a horizontal stem that can divide and grow in several directions at once.

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The correct answer is rhizome.

Rhizome is a modified horizontal underground stem. Rhizome may or may not be fleshy. It becomes fleshly when it stores food as in ginger. It looks like root but it is not root because there is presence of nodes, internodes, scale like leaves on it and it is frequently develops branches in different direction. Through rhizome many plants propagates vegetatively.

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