1、However, do not eat the leaves of the rhubarb plant as they are inedible and toxic.
5、They made indifferent sentinels, for in many places their ranks had been broken by the rhubarb plant, and they lay with crumpled heads and listless stems, making a pathway for the rabbits.
4、Now research shows how one plant does this: The desert rhubarb plant captures 16 times more liquid from its bone-dry surroundings than neighboring plants.
6、Like the mountains and valleys that might route water into a river, the plant's leaves channel rainwater toward the ground surrounding the rhubarb plant's root.
3、The rhubarb plant (Rheum palaestinum), however, takes an entirely different approach: its huge leaves funnel water to its single root.
2、A sheath formed at the node of a stem by the fusion of two stipules, as in the rhubarb plant.
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