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What's in a bulbil?

What's in a bulbil?

And some helpful terms for things that are not bulbils.

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Zoe Barry
May 24, 2025
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What's in a bulbil?
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Last year everyone got quite into bulbils, especially with regards to garlic. But bulbils are, for one, fun lil guys, and for another, all over some lilies, so I thought it might be interesting to delve a little bit into them.

What bulbils are

Bulbils are small plants which grow in the axillary buds (the little bud between the leaf and the stem) of a plan…

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