Where Does Plant Store Its Food?
Food from photosynthesis
Plants then store this food in different parts of the plant that an animal will eat. They can store it in their leaves, stems or roots, flowers, fruits or seeds.

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Hereof, which plants store food in their leaves?

Those plants that can store food in their leaves are -Cabbage, Lettuce,spinach etc. Some can store food in their stem like sugar cane.

Secondly, where is the food stored in a yam plant? Potatoes, cassava, sweet potatoes and yams are tubers. Contrary to what many people think tubers are not roots. They are underground stems that serve as food storage units for the green foliage above the ground. Roots absorb nutrients, tubers store them.

Hereof, where is food stored in plants and in what form?

In plants, food is stored in the leaves, stems and roots in the form of starch. The storage form of glucose in plants is starch. Starch is a polysaccharide. The leaves of a plant make sugar during the process of photosynthesis.

What are the three stems that store food?

Examples of food-storing stems include such specialized forms as tubers, rhizomes, and corms and the woody stems of trees and shrubs. Water storage is developed to a high degree in the stems of cacti, and all green stems are capable of photosynthesis.

Related Question Answers

What leaves do we eat?

When we eat spinach or lettuce, we are eating the plant's leaves. We eat the fruit of squash, cucumber and tomato plants. When we eat corn or peas we are eating seeds, and when we eat radish or carrot, we are eating roots. Cauliflower and broccoli plants produce flowers we like to eat.

Which plants have thick and fleshy leaves to store food?

Succulents (plants that store water) such as cacti and agaves have thick, fleshy stems or leaves.
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