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What are the parts of an onion?
The onion plant has a fan of hollow, bluish-green leaves and its bulb at the base of the plant begins to swell when a certain day-length is reached. The bulbs are composed of shortened, compressed, underground stems surrounded by fleshy modified scale (leaves) that envelop a central bud at the tip of the stem
Which part is eaten in onion?
bulb
What are the parts of an onion called?
bulb
What is the edible part of an onion?
The edible part in the onion is concentric fleshy, enlarged scaly leaf bases. The outer part of the leaves loses moisture and becomes scaly whereas the inner part thickens along with the development of the bulb. So, the correct answer is ‘Modified leaves’.
What is the fleshy part of an onion called?
A bulb consists of a relatively large, usually globe-shaped, underground bud with membraneous or fleshy overlapping leaves arising from a short stem.
Is the edible part of the onion a fruit?
In botany, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering. So based on the above definition, can an onion be actually a fruit? Not really! Onions (the part inside the ground) do not include seeds, nor they form directly from a flower.