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Adiantaceae [First Draft]
... covered with brown multi-cellular stff hairs and faced outer margins appressed short setae; rachis same colour with stipes and densely covered with same stiff hairs; apex of rachis generally ... green, covered with brown multi-cellular stiff hairs on under surfaces and loose short hairs on upper surfaces; costae same colour with stipes, polished, also with stiff hairs, apex ocationally prolonged into ...
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The Curious Bog
... loses its footing on the slippery, downward-sloping hairs and plunges into the liquid. Enzymes or bacteria begin working almost immediately, while the stiff hairs prevent the escape of the unlucky insect. The ...
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Leaf Terminology (Part 2)
... stiff hairs. Bristly: Stiff hairs. Canescent: Dense grayish-white hairs. Ciliate: Hairs along leaf margin forming a fringe. Floccose: Tufts of soft, woolly hairs. Glandular: Hairs with enlarged gland at tip. Hirsute: Stiff hairs, rough to the touch. Hispid: Stiff ...
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Stinking Flowers
... inflated "pipe chamber" due to slippery wax granules on the inner surface. Dense, downward-pointing hairs in the floral tube prevent the gnats from climbing out. During their incarceration the gnats ... due to a dense rosette of stiff hairs, the flies remain prisoners until the male flowers above the stiff hairs start to release pollen. Then the barricade of hairs wilts and the flies are able ...
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Crataegus engelmannii, Engelmann hawthorn
... ) long and 1.3-2.5 cm (0.5-1 in) wide, with short stiff hairs above, pilose hairs above and beneath on the midrib; rounded or short-pointed at apex, margins glandular ... above, paler below; petioles short, glandular pilose. Flowers 8-12 in cymes, with long pale hairs, about 2 cm (0.75 in) long, tomentose, villose, or nearly glabrous; petals 5, white ...
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Borago officinalis
... hispid plant of the Borage family - boraginaceae- up to 60 cm. Erect stems covered with stiff hairs. Lower leaves petiolated, ovate, in basal rosette; upper leaves sessile. Flowers grouped in pendulous cymes ...
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Darlingtonia californica, Carnivorous Plants Online - Botanical Society of America
... view of Figure 8, it's in trouble. Sharp downwardly-pointing hairs, which here merely look like glistening areas, prevent the insect ... days, and the hairs on the seeds, by increasing the surface area, permit the seeds to float farther. Possibly the stiff hairs help the seeds ... while because air bubbles get trapped among the hairs. If they are floating, the hairs may aid the seeds in catching on debris ...
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Canary Islands Pine Forests
... leaves are narrow and long, pointed, flat and strigose owing to the thin, short and stiff hairs. The flowers vary from pink to light blue and are arranged in close inflorescences at ...
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Canary Islands Glossary
... flowers form spike-like cluster. Stalk = Stem, main axis of plant. Strigose = With short stiff hairs or scale. Succulent = Thick and fleshy, having such leaves or stems. Tannin = Astringent substance ... preparing leather, writing ink, and medicine. Tomentum = Kind of pubescence composed of matted, woolly hairs. Toothed= Leaf whose margin has acuminated teeth. Tree = Perennial plant with single woody ...
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International Carnivous Plant Society
... inches) wide with a distinct ruffle along the edge, reminiscent of the S. leucophylla parent. Stiff hairs to 1 mm long are inside the hood. The modest size of the pitchers comes ... have prominent irregular white spots, and the pitcher's interior is profusely lined with long hairs to 2 mm long. You can see this hybrid exhibits characteristics of its three parents ...
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