The correct answer is Leaves.
Food is stored in the leaves. Onion as a whole is a modified stem
Key Points
- Different parts of plants like roots, shoots, leaves, flowers, fruits, etc perform the function of storage of food
- The fleshy leaves of onion are its consumable part.
- As a whole, the onion is a bulb, which is a short modified form of a stem that is surrounded by these fleshy leaves that store food for the onion shoots.
Important Points
- The stored food in onion leaves is Sugar.
Additional Information
- In plants like carrot, reddish, beetroot, sweet potato, turnip, etc. roots perform the function of food storage.
- Some plants store their food in the form of fruit. Ex- apple, guava, grapes mango, etc.
- Plants like potato, ginger, garlic, sugarcane, etc. store their food in stems.
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