Stolons?

[Paul Christian]

A few more pennyworth since work has now finished,

I could well be wrong on this but I have always thought that a rhizome must
have dormant axilliary growth points along its length.  In any rhizome you
can induce these buds to break by removing the apical dominance -
i.e.cutting out the main shoot, then the axiliary buds break.  To have
axils it needs nodes and vestigal leaves.  All of this makes a rhizome a
version of a stem, as we agree, but the things in Arisaema have neither
axilliary buds nor vestigal leaves nor nodes??

It also makes me wonder if a tuber such as Arisaema can suddenly sprout a
rhizome, in order to make a new tuber at some distance.  I cannot swallow
the Arisaema things as rhizomes, sorry but they lack all of the structure.
This is idle musing but it seems a tad unlikely.  There again so does this
red-coated old chap, that is pulled about by reindeer and is due tonight.
THIS TIME I am going to catch him.

Final idea, Brian Mathew and others have referred to "droppers", these are
underground things that are produced by other underground things from their
sides tops or bottom, they can go up, sideways or down (they don't have to
"drop") and it is an essential part of their definition that they cannot be
accurately pigeon-holed or defined, how about "droppers"

Anyone else had their Kaichen/Chenyi Christmas presents yet ??