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Nancy ♡

there was a pretty bad storm last night and my dahlia got taken out. i found these as i’m re planting her, are they bulbs??

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    Yes. We think of dahlias as grown from tubers, like potatoes, but they're not really. They're actually grown from tuberous roots. Unlike tubers, which are made up of stem tissue, tuberous roots are made up of actual root tissue that is slightly larger so they can store more nutrients!

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    • Nancy ♡

      thanks so much for the input? so i can plant them and a new plant will grow ??

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    • Edward

      At the top of the broken tuber if you see an eye, a small black dot, the eye will grow from the tuber and it will become the plant. You can wash the tuber to better spot the eye but be careful not to knock it off. If there is no eye you can actually eat the tuber, I personally haven’t tried that yet but it is definitely something I would try

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