rhizomes
Horizontal underground stems
Rhizomes are horizontal underground stems that send out roots and shoots from their nodes, allowing plants to spread laterally.
Ginger, iris, and bamboo grow from rhizomes.
Unlike true roots, rhizomes store nutrients and can regenerate entire plants from fragments—which is why rhizome-spreading weeds are so persistent.
In philosophy, Deleuze and Guattari used the rhizome as a metaphor for non-hierarchical networks of connection.
Pungent culinary rhizome
- turmericYellow rhizome spice
- galangalPungent Asian cooking rhizome
- irisEye's pigmented disc
- cannaTropical flowering ornamental genus
lotus · bamboo · ferns · horsetail · asparagus · lily · arum · calathea
Below ground or countercultural
- horizontalParallel to the horizon
- nodesPoints of connection
- internodesStem sections between nodes
- shootsFires or photographs
buds · storage · creeping · subterranean · adventitious · lateral · branching · fleshy
Pungent culinary rhizome
- turmericYellow rhizome spice
- galangalPungent Asian cooking rhizome
- lotus rootEdible water lily stem
- arrowrootDigestible tropical starch
- networkInterconnected system
- multiplicityState of being many
- nonhierarchicalWithout ranked levels
- decentralizedLacking single authority
connections · assemblage · nomadic · deterritorialization · poststructuralism · heterogeneity · plateau · cartography
Splitting into parts
- spreadingExtending over space
- cloningMaking identical copies
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- vegetativeOf plant growth
cuttings · transplanting · multiplication · offshoots · runners · colonizing · invasive · clumping
ginger
Pungent culinary rhizome
canna · lotus · bamboo · ferns · horsetail · asparagus · lily · arum · calathea · cardamom
underground
Below ground or countercultural
- horizontalParallel to the horizon
- nodesPoints of connection
- internodesStem sections between nodes
shoots · buds · storage · creeping · subterranean · adventitious · lateral · branching · fleshy · fibrous
ginger
Pungent culinary rhizome
- turmericYellow rhizome spice
- galangalPungent Asian cooking rhizome
- lotus rootEdible water lily stem
Guattari
- networkInterconnected system
- multiplicityState of being many
- nonhierarchicalWithout ranked levels
decentralized · connections · assemblage · nomadic · deterritorialization · poststructuralism · heterogeneity · plateau · cartography · immanence
division
Splitting into parts
- spreadingExtending over space
- cloningMaking identical copies
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
vegetative · cuttings · transplanting · multiplication · offshoots · runners · colonizing · invasive · clumping · mat-forming
- gardeninggardener, gardening, flowers, seeds, soil
- bananasbananas, banana, plantain, plantains, banana leaves
- plant growthbloom, bud, buds, flower, fruit
- bamboo forestbamboo grove, bamboo shoots, groves, leaves, shoots
- botanybotany, plants, plant biology, plant, plant anatomy
- plant adaptationsdrought tolerance, water storage, deep roots, spines, thorns
rhizomestaproots
Main downward-growing plant roots
fibrous roots · trunks · tubers · bulbs · corms
rhizomestree structures
Hierarchical data arrangements
hierarchies · taxonomies · binary logic · binary systems · lineage