How do bulbed plants like daffodils work. they get seed pods but grow from a bulb?
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With some, the seeds will produce a viable plant but takes years and is unlikely to belike the origional, very rarely better, usually worthless. It will need to grow to a good sized bulb before you see the bloom.
The bulbs usually grow and devide faster, if you do not let it go to seed.
Look at it in reverse. Daffodils produce seed that grows into a bulb that produces more seed. Bulbs are simply an underground storehouse for future flowers, perennials are a ground level storehouse, while trees are an above ground storehouse. Bulbs have evolved to remain below ground,avoiding predators, frost, and hot sun; just what is needed for a Spring flowering bulb.
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