1. 1 This is a perennating rhizome from which flowering shoots arise annually.

2. A corm is a modified, upright, swollen, underground stem base of an herbaceous plant.Corms serve as a perennating organ (allowing the plant to live from season to season), storing energy and producing new shoots and flowering stems from one or more buds located in the axils of the scale – like leaves of the previous year

3. A Corm is a modified, upright, swollen, underground stem base of an herbaceous plant.Corms serve as a perennating organ (allowing the plant to live from season to season), storing energy and producing new shoots and flowering stems from one or more buds located in the axils of the scale – like leaves of the previous year