Rhizome Plant for medicinal purpose, food security and climate change

Rhizome plant

Description

The Plant is part of the Convallaria majalis is a herbaceous perennial plant that forms extensive colonies by spreading underground stems called rhizomes. With new upright shoots formed at the ends of stoloms.

It is a subterranean stem (plant) that send out its roots and shoots from its extensions underground. This Rhizome can also be called creeping rootstalks and rootstocks. 

 Rhizome plant is a fast-growing, invasive, perennial plant that can spread quickly to form a carpet of foliage that will crowd out other vigorous plants around it.

Main impacts

Fight against climate change
Produces sugar
Produces oil for medicinal purpose
Main causes May establish from seed, but usually arrives via rhizomes from neighboring sites, or root fragments
Timing Rhizomes and roots persist year-round

 The plant

 The plant spreads by rhizomes, it can easily creep in from a neighboring area to another. It can also be unknowingly introduced through its seeds or roots.

 The Rhizome Plant can be separated into pieces, each piece can shoot and produce a new plant. The plant uses the rhizome to store nutrients. These nutrients become useful for the plant when new shoots must be formed. This is a process known as vegetative reproduction and is used by farmers to propagate certain plants. Some rhizomes which are used directly in cooking include ginger and others.

 The origine of the Rhizome plant is the forest.  Studied and domesticated, the plant survived at the back-yard of Yaounde the capital of Cameroon and later experienced in the North-West region where it is perfectly doing well.

 The plant is generally unaffected by drought conditions.  Its roots chains from the first germinated leaf to another, which extend and produce other shoots.  The roots has no end.

 New shoot

 A bedrock obstructed this Rhizome beneath the surface.  On this picture, it has demonstrated its resistance by resurfacing in search of new shoots and invasion.

 Seasons nor droughts does not affect growth of the plants.  It quickly spreads into every where no matter the obstacles.  It is a plant of multi-environment. 

 New shoots from rhizomes

 The seed of this Rhizome Plant germinated 12 months after it was sowed. The multi impact ever green plant of the wild forest of Cameroon expands round the clock and in an invasive manner. 

 The plant spreads by rhizomes

One year suppervision