What are Tuber Flower Bulbs?

Video Transcript What are Tuber Flower Bulbs? YOLANDA VANVEEN: Hi. This is Yolanda Vanveen on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're going to talk about what is a tuber and what is a rhizome and what do you do with these flower bulbs. These are all considered rhizomes: I have a Dahlia, a Bearded Iris and a colored Calla Lily also called Zantedeschia or an Aethiopica family. And basically, a rhizome or a tuber is anything that has a fleshy material inside. So, if you break it apart, you'll see it looks like a potato inside, so pretty much the rhizome and tubers all have this fleshy potato-type interior. So, when you have a bulb and if you don't know if it's good or not, you can always break parts of it off and if it looks like a potato inside, your bulbs are still good and I've been amazed; you can have just a little part of a portion of a piece of a cell of one of these bulbs and as long as it looks like a potato and it's healthy and it's not mushy, it will reproduce. It will clone ...  more