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Specialized Stems

Stolons and rhizomes are specialized stems that send out roots and shoots from their joints (nodes). Rhizomes are usually found under the ground, and stolons, along the soil surface. Both provide plant with a creeping, spreading grown habit.

Creeping growth habit, spreading by underground rhizomes.        Creeping growth habit, spreading by aboveground stolons.
 
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