Food storing plant part in onion is:

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  1. Root
  2. Flower
  3. Leaves
  4. Fruit

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Option 3 : Leaves
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Explanation:

  • 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.


Mistake Points
Food is stored in the leaves. Onion as a whole is a modified stem

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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