# Bulbs are stems and the layers are leaves?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 9, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bulbs-are-stems-and-the-layers-are-leaves/379726 "2006-11-09T17:29:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bulbs-are-stems-and-the-layers-are-leaves/379726/1 "2006-11-09T17:29:49Z")

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Is this fundamentally so? I don’t understand this assertion. Is it actually true? Are the leaves of an onion bulb made of leaf-type cells? What’s the straight dope on this?