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Can rhizomes serve as roots for the mother plant?

treeguy123
13 years ago

Just part of a possible future experiment, I was wondering if you covered a plants rhizomes with something like weed cloth and rocks, would the rhizomes continue to live and serve as long roots to carry water and nutrients to the mother plant OR would the rhizomes eventually die off from lack of sunlight and the inability to send up new leaf shoots or pup plants?

Basically I was mainly wondering if the rhizomes can act as extra roots to carry water and nutrients to the mother plant? (the rhizomes would be completely blocked off from suckering or pupping new baby plants by covering the rhizomes with porous cloth and rocks as well).

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