Bulb size matters: Uncovering the evolution of the plant kingdom’s doomsday preppers – Research News https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/uncovering-evolution-of-bulb-size/
Botanist Cody Coyotee Howard compares bulbs to living bunkers. With an underground stockpile of resources, bulbs can hunker down during disasters and spring up faster than other plants when conditions turn balmy. The bigger the bulb, the more nutrients a plant has in times of need. But bulb size
His curiosity led to one of the first studies of the evolution and ecology of bulb
