Stem

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  • It bears leaves, buds, flowers, fruits, etc.
  • The stem conducts water from the roots to the leaves and to the other parts and food from leaves to the roots and other parts of the plant.
  • Potatoes, yams, ginger, onion, etc. though present in the soil, are actually stem and store food within them.

There are two other kinds of plants which are:

Creepers: These are plants which have soft, weak and green stems and hence cannot stand straight and instead spread on the ground.

Some common examples are sweet potato, watermelon, pumpkin etc.

Climbers: These are also plants with soft and weak stems but instead of spreading on the ground they take support with a nearby object to climb up.

Some common examples of creepers are cucumber, bean, grapevine, money-plant etc.

Let us observe and study each part of a plant step by step:

Stem

The Stem is the part of a plant which is responsible for supplying water to all parts of the plant. It is the stem which bears branches, flowers, leaves, fruits and buds. The root sucks the water and minerals from the soil and it is the stem’s function to push this water upward to other parts of the plant.

We can observe this by soaking the stem of a plant in a glass with water. On adding colored ink to the water, we observe that after a while the stem and leaves of the plant start to turn the color of the ink, which is proof that the stem carries the water to the different parts of the plant.

The experiment helps demonstrate how stems are responsible for carrying water to different plant parts