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Word	Description
Bare root transplant	A soilless young plant lifted from a seedbed for transplanting, as opposed to a module or potted plant.
Basal	Most commonly in referral to basal leaves, leaves formed at the base of the flowering stem.
Basal plate	The bottom of the bulb, corm, from which the roots form.
Beard	A tuft or line of hairs as on the falls of the bearded iris.
Biennial	Requiring two seasons from germination to flowering. Commonly biennial plants form the foliage the first season, flowering and dying occurs the second.
Blade	That part of a leaf or petal that is expanded.
Blotch	An irregular spot or discoloration, especially a dark and relatively large one.
Bone meal	Bone meal is a slow acting, long-lasting source of the phosphorus bulbs need to build good root systems. Apply it at a rate of 5 to 6 pounds per 100 square feet if you plant them in beds and about a teaspoonful in each hole in you are naturalizing them,
Botanical name	The name applied to a plant, animal or other organism, according to the rules of the Codes of Nomenclature. Although in some cases a scientific name will be changed, it is almost always a much more reliable manner of identifying a plant than the often var
Bract	A modified leaf usually subtending the pedicel of a flower.
Broadcasting	A way of planting. Also called planting in long drifts. Done by strewing out the bulbs and planting them where they landed to obtain a maximum natural feel.
Bulb	An underground storage organ, consisting of leaves modified for storage (called scales), which can be solitary or many and which are most commonly fleshy and attached to a basal plate of solid tissue, enclosing the growing point.
Bulbiferous	Bearing bulbs.
Bulbil	Small bulbs growing on the stem either underground or in the axils of the leaves, or in certain species in the florescence.
Bulblet	Small bulbs produced around the parent bulb.
Bulbous	See Bulbiferous.