Roots as food storage

This task is about identifying methods of food storage in different plants.

Tuber

Bulb

Corm

Tap root
 
a)
 
These diagrams show four ways plants store food to help them survive during the winter. Next to each plant write in the type of underground storage organ it uses. The first one has been done for you.
 

Plant

Storage organ

Dahlia

Tuber

Potato

 

Carrot

 

Daffodil

 

Tulip

 

Taro

 

Radish

 

Gladioli

 

 
b)
 
Name another tuber commonly grown in New Zealand. ____________________
 
c)
Name another vegetable that stores food in its tap root. ____________________
 
d) Name another flowering plant which stores food in a bulb. ____________________