rootstock

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Description of Rootstock — The rootstock and roots are employed in medicine.

The rootstock, which has a bitter and very acrid taste, is poisonous.

Internally the rootstock is whitish and of a spongy texture.

Of course, there are all gradations between a tuber and a rootstock.

Rootstock, root-like trunks or portions of stems on or under ground, 42.

Rootstock short, its base including the buds of succeeding years.

Its rootstock produces the well-known fìlix-mas of the pharmacist.

The rootstock cannot be used as a substitute for ginger, but smells and tastes very aromatic and pungent.

In the course of time the older roots become hollow and inactive without becoming detached from the rootstock.

Its leaves and rootstock are astringent, and the latter yields a yellow dye.