Class of chemical compounds.
1It is obtained from the corms of a plant called konjac.
2It does not cover, for instance, bulbs, corms, stolons, and rhizomes.
3They are treated like the large corms, in the fall.
4Some tubers are very bulb-like in appearance, as the corms of crocus and gladiolus.
5In the interaction, fungal hyphae penetrate older, nutritive corms but not newly formed corms.
6These small corms may be taken off in the spring and sown thickly in drills.
7We planted a mass of corms under a little group of field maples this autumn.
8From these corms, a protein fraction with in vitro activity against plant-pathogenic fungi has previously been purified.
9Contributing to a filling breakfast was the fortunate find of a marmot's cache of spring beauty corms.
10You will find several new corms in fall, taking the place of the old one planted in spring.
11Often there will be scores of little fellows the size of a pea, clustered about the larger corms.
12If a handful of corms gets dug up when you plant something else, it is of no consequence.
13Dispose of corms and root fragments at a refuse transfer station or dry them out and burn them.
14Vegetables were also dried-stems ,buds ,andparticularly starchy roots, such as cattail, thistle, licorish fern, and various lily corms.
15This juice was clear and by test was found to possess the same acrid property as the unmashed corms.
16But mice adore their corms.