Where can I find pictures of different plant root systems?

I have to draw the roots of fifteen different plants for an assignment, two of each of the following trees, fruit, flowers, vegetable, tubers and weeds.

Where can I find pictures of different plant root systems?
Two trees! What a tough question. Try an oak and a conifer. The oak will have a root structure that looks like the crown (branches) whereas the conifer will be shallower and more surface rooting.





Fruit. Try a strawberry that roots on runners (stolon) and a can fruit like a raspberry that roots on suckers that run underground (rhizomes).





Flower. Pick one with a bulb like a daffodil and an above ground rhizome like a bearded iris.





Vegetable. Carrots have tap roots, onions bulbs with a fibrous roots.





Tubers. Potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes.





Weeds. Dandelion has a tap root (perennial), bittercress has fibrous roots (annual) others like couch grass have underground rhizomes.





Broadly speaking, the annuals have poor fibrous root systems on the whole that don't allow them to withstand the winter. The perennials have good underground storage root systems that withstand the cold.





Hope that helps a bit. A good book to borrow would be the Principles of Horticulture if you wanted to look into it further.





Hope you have every success.
Reply:It is seen in the Botany text book. ie, its well displayed in the


Taxonamy text book. In Taxonamy text draw and labelled the root system and shoot system of various trees, fruit, flowers, vegetable, tubers and weeds. So you can see pictures of different plant root systems.


In another method is search of good botany related site.
Reply:Purchase a good botany book
Reply:Yahoo image search x
Reply:Type "root systems" under Yahoo Image search. Lots of jump off points from there.

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