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Weird roots from base of stems

15 years ago

Hi,

Newbie rose grower here. While cleaning around my rose plant a few days back, I saw a bunch of weird roots growing where a small clump of goat dung had got stuck, even though it was not buried in the soil. I just put some soil on top of it to cover it up.

I am curious to know if this phenomenon is common. For roots to form above the ground?

Ram

Here is a link that might be useful: PICTURE OF ROOTS

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anntn6b
15 years ago
The thin white feeder roots that come from rose roots are much thinner that what you showed.
My guess is that those are fungi coming from the dung.
If you had taken a clump of them, you probably wouldn't have found any stem like strength. If they are fungi, they aren't doing any harm, and if you try to find them where you put soil on top of them, they are probably gone. There are some fungi that make hard woody growth, but I think that those are the kind that 'melt' away with time, usually a short period of time.
catsrose
15 years ago
Either a fungus or it's something the goat ate thatis now sprouting. I'd take it off the rose, gently, without scraping the rose's bark.
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If it is rose roots coming cleanly from the stems of the rose, then just cover the roots with a good layer of soil. The rose will be perfectly happy--actually even happier because more roots = a stronger plant.

Roses are one of the few plants that can be buried a little deeper without any problem. Most plants do not like this, but roses do not mind.

If the roots are coming from a strange, cork-like type of mass attached to the rose stem, then that is crown gall, a serious bacterial infection. You can google up pictures of rose crown gall to see if that is it.
reg_pnw7
15 years ago
Many plants can form aerial roots from stems, often after some kind of stem injury that disrupts the transport of water and sap. But, even aerial roots will not grow upwards, only outwards and downwards. Sometimes plants are propagated this way, called air layering - the bark is cut, and the cut area packed in damp moss and wrapped in plastic. When roots have grown into the moss, the stem is cut off and potted as a new plant.

I don't know what this is on your rose. Might be roots, might not.

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