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colourful flowers. In grasses, each floret (flower) is enclosed in a pair of papery bracts, called the lemma (lower bract) and palea (upper bract), while each...

species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common name papery schiedea and membranous schiedea. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known...

Mediterranean plant species in the family Plumbaginaceae known for its papery flowers that can be used in dried arrangements. It is native to the whole...

flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names papery Whitlow-wort and paper nailwort. It is endemic to Florida in the United...

Pseudostomatella papyracea, common name the papery stomatella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails...

glabra is sometimes called "paper flower" because its bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow five-lobed achene. The first European to describe...

membranaceum is an uncommon species of wild onion known by the common name papery onion. It is endemic to California, where it grows in wooded areas in the...

and pears that is consumed is, in fact, the hypanthium. The ovary is the papery core that surrounds the apple seeds. As the hypanthium ripens it forms the...

as inedible. The overall body resembles a cocktail umbrella. The cap is papery, and the species has no veil. Two similar species, P. hemerobia and P. leiocephala...

seed pods: triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin, papery outer shell and small, black seeds; Elettaria pods are light green and smaller...

America. The plant has a low, spreading habit, and fruits develop in a papery husk, as is characteristic of the genus. While most parts of the plant are...

: 74–75  In the argonaut (paper nautilus), the female secretes a fine, fluted, papery shell in which the eggs are deposited and in which she also resides while...

acorn shell appears woolly. The actual nut is encased in a thin, clinging, papery skin. The leaves typically have sharp lobe tips, with spiny bristles at...

Jewish Food. HMH. ISBN 978-0544186316. These pale green nuts covered with a papery skin grow on a small deciduous tree native to Persia, the area that still...

below the surface, resulting in a rounded channel. chartaceous Having a papery texture. chasmogamous Of flowers that are pollinated when the perianth is...

prevent it from flourishing. Many seeds such as birch are small and have papery wings to aid dispersal by the wind. Ash trees and maples have larger seeds...

one seed enclosed in a "nutlet" attached to a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue. They are shaped to spin as they fall and to carry the seeds a considerable...

inspire the anti-architectural "architectural" features at the top, the papery pierced frame, the satyr nudes at the base. As a mere frame it is extravagant:...

Widely grown in the tropics. The plant is a legume and the fruit is a papery pod containing one or more nut-like seeds. World production in 2019 was...

4–12 mm (0.16–0.47 in), elliptic in outline, sharply angled at the apex, papery to membranaceous in texture, ciliate (i.e., fringed) along the upper margins...