Production of Flower Bulbs

Flower bulb production involves the cultivation of flower-producing bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes. In true bulbs, nutritional reserves are stored in fleshy scales that are parts of the plants' underground storage organs. Good examples of true bulbs are tulips, hyacinths, iris, lilies and narcissi. The other geophytes (the scientific name for all these plants with underground storage systems) have different types of storage organs. Good examples are gladioli and crocus (corms), dahlias (tubers) and certain iris (rhizomes).

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