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Is the flower of tulip modified shoot?


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Tulip, a modified shoot:

  1. Tulip is the common name for any bulbous perennial plant in the Liliaceae flowering plant family's genus Tulipa, which contains thousands of varieties and about 100 species.
  2. A bulb is a vertical underground shoot that has been modified (or thickened leaf bases).
  3. As a modified stem with shortened internodes and bearing at its nodes and structures that may be highly modified leaves, the flower is viewed as such.
  4. On a modified branch or axis with an apical meristem that does not grow continuously, a floral structure forms.
  5. Thus we can say that tulip is a modified shoot because flower itself is a modified shoot.

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