geophyton

Turnips are geophysical plants

It is called a geophyte (from the Greek geo, earth and phyto, plant) to that plant species that goes by the unfavorable age for growth underground, in the form of bulb, rhizome, tubercle or reservoir roots. According to some authors (Simpson 2005, 2010), caudice plants also fall into this category.

Plants, in their process of adaptation or convergence to the climate and diverse environments, develop a series of external characters, morphological and structural. These predominant external characters form categories that are essential for the knowledge of the formations and plant communities of the earth, and are the so-called biotypes.

Within the Raunkiær system the geotype biotype is precisely the plant whose enduring organs are underground.

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