Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1492/en

out from the humus-rich topsoil, while its root strands penetrate deep into the mineral subsoil, spreading out there only with their finest rootlets. Even pieces of the upper taproot can redevelop at both cut ends into the fully formed plant. The upper parts of the branching primary root, meanwhile, thicken in the topsoil into a turnip-like *rhizome root*. This is filled with a loose cell mass traversed by a network of interconnected tubes. These channels carry a white, mucilaginous milky sap that is held under pressure. Here a damming effect makes itself felt, one that can be followed all the way up into the flower stalks. Cut through the root, the leaf midrib, or the flower stalk, and the milky sap wells out at once; the entire dandelion plant stands continuously under heightened sap pressure (*turgescence*). One can also say: the etheric body of this plant stands under a constant "formative pressure" from the astral.