She looked down at one of her 20 rhubarb plants and said, "Well, this."
Forcing sheds were surrounded by fields of rhubarb plants.
Originally the rhubarb plant which contains rhein was used as a laxative.
The rhubarb plants spend two years out in the fields without being harvested.
Inedible flowering stalks are the only true stalks a rhubarb plant makes.
The rhubarb plant grows well in northern climates.
The only edible parts of the rhubarb plant is the stalk.
They stopped at a nursery where Cargraves ordered three dozen young rhubarb plants.
When he moved into his current house, he found a rhubarb plant that was "infested with some critter."
She was 36; when she and her husband moved to Minnesota, they inherited 30 rhubarb plants from their house's previous owner.