sterile bracts

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Native Orchid Society of South Australia
... fistula just above ground level. The pink stem had 2 sterile bracts and pink buds. The blue flowers had a small slit ... unnamed Thelymitra 'viola-fragrans' with a narrow leaf had two sterile stem bracts and a low fistula. The freely opening, bright blue, ... slender form of the species, but still the larger stem bracts are an identifying characteristic. In the messmate stringybark woodland, T. juncifolia ...
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Lavandula stoechas Spanish Lavender
... Rabbit Ears and the bloom is described as a pineapple. The colorful "ears" are actually sterile bracts. This one year old Spanish Lavender bush is ready to explode with color. The early ...
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Paghat's Garden: Lavandula stoechas ssp pedunculata
... photo above more than adequately illustrates the reason for such names! The ears are large sterile bracts rather than flower petals. The folknames Steckado, Stichados, & Stickadove, are possibly only corruptions of the ...
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Angiosperm Families - Campanulaceae Juss.
... . Pollination entomophilous; mechanism conspicuously specialized (via modifications of the style, with sterile tissue covering the stigmas at anthesis. Active in most Lobelioideae, usually passive). ... Inflorescences scapiflorous, or not scapiflorous; terminal, or axillary; with involucral bracts, or without involucral bracts; pseudanthial, or not pseudanthial. Flowers medium-sized to large; regular ...
delta-intkey.com

digitals
... (4) 5-7. Four feet tall and 18 inches wide with leafy bracts on the flowering spikes. For well drained dry soils in full ... and having toothed margins. flowers are born in racemes with leafy bracts and are densely packed, blooming from the bottom up wards. Flowers ... except it has larger flowers. Soft gray pink flowers. Plants are sterile. Forms a vigorous clump and is fully perennial. Plants grow 4-5 ...
hardyplants.com

Garden at Symdock - Bromeliads - Intergeneric
... growing and flowering cycles. Some of the bigenerics can have sterile flowers and pollen, but are able to reproduce by offsets ... bracts and are displayed high on the many branched dark red spikes, lasting for many months. The flowers appear to be sterile ... from the multiple branched dark red bracts and flower spikes. These flat, narrow sword shaped bracts standing vertically and multiple branched in ...
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LAB 5
... sex organs while the florets at the periphery (C, left) are sterile. · Look at the examples of this family provided. Note some ... a flower stalk that is showy. Such leaves are called bracts. Not surprisingly, because of their attractiveness many of these plants are ... Euphorbia pulcherrima, is a good example. The bright red bits are bracts with some very inconspicuous flowers at the centre of the ...
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Job's Tears
... very hard, hollow structure (called an involucre) containing a minute fertile female flower and two sterile flowers. Pollen-bearing male flowers are produced on a slender stalk that extends out of ... two ears at far left (called pod corn), the individual grains are enclosed in papery bracts called glumes. Glumes are present is most native grasses, but have been selected against in ...
waynesword.palomar.edu

Cereal (Grain) Photos #1
... (DD) can also be crossed with tetraploid durum wheat (T. turgidum AABB) to produce a sterile triploid hybrid with 3 sets of chromosomes (ABD). This hybrid is treated with colchicine to ... individual spikelet. Rice (Oryza sativa). A. Grain-bearing spikelet showing a pair of slender basal bracts (glumes) and the stalk (pedicel). The inflorescence is composed of numerous spikelets, each bearing a ...
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Reed College Canyon: Plants
... the west side of the Cascades. It's easy to recognize by the three-pointed bracts sticking out of the cones. Redcedar was the most important wood for the native Americans ... stems, which are unbranched, produce large cones full of spores and then wither away. The sterile stems produce whorls of green branches and persist through the summer. Distinguishing between the two ...
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