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stolon
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stolon
an above-ground prostrate stem that develops roots and leaves at nodes along its length, e.g. couch grass.
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Its stoloniferous root system can penetrate deep sandy soils and its extraction required teams of men trench digging more than a metre into the soil to harvest the important root.
Where does that come from? Liquorice by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Colonial organisms whose physical structure can be described as branching, sheet-forming, or mound-forming generally grow slowly but are better competitors for space on the seafloor than encrusting and stoloniferous epifauna (Hughes, 1989).
Changes in a benthic megafaunal community due to disturbance from ... by Asch, Rebecca G.; Collie, Jeremy S. / Fishery Bulletin
Euonymus is stoloniferous, has a rooting depth of at least 12-18 cm, and is capable of rapid vegetative spread (USDA, NRCS 2007).
Soil bacterial community structure under exotic versus native ... by Swedo, Barbara L.; Glinka, Clare; Rollo, David R.; Reynolds, Heather L. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
 
 
 
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