I have hundreds of rhizomes but am just finding out there are bare root starts. What is the difference. A rhizome I know is ball like and bare root is kinda soft do they both multiply??

rhizome is what you have before the roots start. Much like a tulip bulb or banana corm. Bare root canna is just roots along with the rhizome meaning it has grown. It could be shipped with a bit of a stem. I hope that helps you.

Thank you that makes sense kinda but the bare root cannas I have gotten had no rhizome just roots and perhaps abit of the stem. When I pull my old timely cannas up in the Fall I have mounds of rhizomes and then I trim the roots off and store until Spring. So if I have a bear root with no rhizome will it produce more rhizomes during the season. And a flowering plant? Also this only seems to be with the more unusual types. white for sure and the multi color ones. Thanks for your help.

Hope you can understand all my mumble jumble

As the plants with just roots grows they will pup and the bulb will grow. Answer to your question would be yes. I forgot to mention any seed grown plants take time to grow rhizomes.

Dardar,

“the
bare root cannas I have gotten had no rhizome just roots and perhaps a bit of
the stem.”

I think
you may have misunderstood or were mistakenly informed about what you were
purchasing in regard to your cannas. Our hybrid cannas use vegetative reproduction
of the rhizome and NOT a root. The only roots cannas must have are the soft
feeder roots that grow from the underground rhizome for the uptake of water and
nutrients as well as an anchor in the ground.

Canna
rhizomes are the underground nutrient storage site that allows the plants to
survive winter storage and hold nutrients for starting the next year’s new
growth. The term bare root is misleading term and can only reference a rhizome
without any soft feeder roots.
Your local big box stores
often sell packaged cannas containing canna rhizomes. These cannas are often referred
to as dry bulb sales or bare root sale packages. They contain canna rhizomes.
Kent

That you both so much I think I understand now.