Editing Bulb (section)

== Bulbil ==<!-- This section is linked from [[Lilium]] -->
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A '''[[bulbil]]''' is a small bulb, and may also be called a '''bulblet''', '''bulbet''', or '''bulbel'''.<ref name=Bell>{{cite book |author=Bell, A.D. |year=1997  |title=Plant form: an illustrated guide to flowering plant morphology |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford, U.K.  }}</ref>

Small bulbs can develop or propagate a large bulb. If one or several moderate-sized bulbs form to replace the original bulb, they are called '''renewal bulbs'''.<ref name=Bell/> '''Increase bulbs''' are small bulbs that develop either on each of the leaves inside a bulb, or else on the end of small underground stems connected to the original bulb.<ref name=Bell/>

Some lilies, such as the tiger lily ''[[Lilium lancifolium]]'', form small bulbs, called bulbils, in their leaf [[axil]]s. Several members of the onion family, Alliaceae, including ''Allium sativum'' ([[garlic]]), form bulbils in their flower heads, sometimes as the flowers fade, or even instead of the flowers (which is a form of [[apomixis]]). The so-called [[tree onion]] (''Allium'' × ''proliferum'') forms small onions which are large enough for [[pickling]].{{cn|date=February 2023}}

Some ferns, such as [[Asplenium bulbiferum|the hen-and-chicken fern]], produce new plants at the tips of the fronds' pinnae that are sometimes referred to as bulbils.
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Image:Lilium lancifolium bulbils.jpg|Bulbils form in the leaf axils of ''[[Lilium lancifolium]]''
Image:Alliumvineale1web.jpg|Wild garlic (''[[Allium vineale]]'') bulbils sprouting
Image:Allium fistulosum bulbifera0.jpg|"[[Tree onion]]s" form clusters of small bulbs instead of flowers
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