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- plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous
How To Use rhubarb plant In A Sentence
- However, do not eat the leaves of the rhubarb plant as they are inedible and toxic.
- The sunny rear garden at 376 Clontarf Road includes a patio area and a long lawn with mature apple trees, rhubarb plants and blackberry bushes.
- 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.
- For anyone wanting to add asparagus or rhubarb plants to the garden, these should also be planted in early spring as soon as they become available.
- Sunken, water-soaked spots also appear on the leafstalks of rhubarb plants which have been infected with phytophthora species fungi causing crown rot.
