And I've often felt textural distinctions: pebbly, stony, papery and, yes, powdery.
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Korean fried chicken tends to be more papery and less knobby and crumbly.
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As the papery-coloured audience turnout in Ottawa would show, he isn't wrong.
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There will be papery curls of carta di musica before anything else arrives.
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Instead of feeling papery matte (or too tacky), my face felt like expensive satin.
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Velvets were crushed and satin-washed, lace smocked and papery leather printed with roses.
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It's made of pure, papery crisp cotton, supple linen or the softest Italian wool.
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The finished bread is sheer and papery at the circumference, curling up like parchment.
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A Malay masseuse kneaded the loose, brown-flecked, papery skin covering Falk's shoulder blades.
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They used to strip down to nothing in that tent, their skin papery in the cold.
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A member of the genus Physalis, it bears papery, heart-shaped husks that resemble Chinese lanterns.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: Lined up in rowsFolded in thin papery wrapPotato, kasha, or cherry cheeseMrs.
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Their characteristic papery bark catches fire first, splintering and soaring into the sky like flaming paper airplanes.
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GANZ One of the only improvisers to make the quiet, papery-voiced bass clarinet his primary instrument.
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They are small, green and covered in a papery husk, which makes them look like Chinese lanterns.
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Although not actual rice paper (as in genuine shoji doors), the fabric is thin and papery yet durable.
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He was a droll kid with pale orange hair and papery skin through which you could see blue veins.
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It was hard for him to make out his face beneath the many thin, papery layers of scar tissue.
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That will make it easy to peel the papery skin off: Chop the garlic up until it's very tiny.
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For one, they're thick; so, unlike most options that are kind of papery and legging-esque, they're not see-through.
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Sara set her food on the armrest, so that if she spilled it she wouldn't burn her mother's papery skin.
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The homework monsoon was so massive and never-ending that some students actually took a ride down the papery stairwell mudslide.
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It clambers awkwardly up a shoot of grass to get at the seeds in their papery chaff, bowing the sprig over.
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Lying on green hospital sheets, Qoba's skin is papery, her eyes huge and her skeletal frame encased in a loose orange dress.
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There is little more to him than parched, papery skin stretched across brittle bones and giant eyes -- brown and unblinking -- gazing up blankly.
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Then, you'd be left with a "shelf-stable" dried bean, freed of its papery pod and ready to be sold in bulk bins.
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From the gluten-free section of the menu come little papery dumplings, slathered in spinach sauce, that explode with kale when bitten into.
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The papery, lilting vocal harmonies float and weave like ghosts, beckoning you closer, closer, and closer still, until you're fully enraptured by their spell.
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The potato slices want to bend and be supple but not be so thin as to be papery, else they will cook too quickly.
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You are listening to his papery voice, just above a whisper — though that is a trick, too: Good performers know how to project and sound confiding.
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I tamped down the highs (which I found somewhat papery out of the box) and bumped up the mids slightly, but your sonic preferences may differ.
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I remember the first time I opened the papery leaves of a physalis to discover the world's smallest, hardest orange on the top of a pavlova.
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It's late March, some of them beginning to turn and wilt and fade, heads Drooping, papery at the tips, desiccated, or completely gone, reduced to calyx.
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His voice is papery, he appears to think that sunglasses are still chic, and, if his movements have any snap, it is supplied by the editing.
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"Landing" stands out, for its papery synth sound, long sax tones and percussion that sounds like a marching-band drummer rehearsing alone in an empty auditorium.
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The most common is the maracuya, which has a pulpy sour fruit inside its papery yellow skin, and an inner membrane reminiscent of a Koosh ball.
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Then he pulls the papery tape with his teeth and gets an end around the dressing, jams the roll between his knees, makes a clumsy bandage.
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The Specialty Coffee Association presents a flavor wheel to help us talk about these flavors – from green/vegetative or papery/musty through to brown sugar or dried fruit.
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His slight face, papery skin and wispy gray hair were a startling departure from his mug shots of long ago, back when his jaw was set like concrete.
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It has a weird, papery flavor, but unlike its fast-disintegrating paper counterpart, it maintains its structure for longer and doesn't permeate the flavor of your drink as intensely.
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I like to cook, but when I get home from work after a long commute, the last thing I want to do is pick away at garlic's papery shell.
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"We sautéed onions and garlic, added in the papery, waxy nest and unhatched larvae, added water, cooked it for an hour and pureed it in a blender," he says.
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On "Temporary Kings," an impressive new album of duets for ECM Records, they play a kind of lightly swinging, papery chamber jazz, with melodies embedded in a cool rhythmic flow.
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Officials told them to strip down and change into papery white Tyvek jump suits, and then guards led them up a flight of stairs above the deck and into a hangar.
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Luce is struck by how thin her friend has become, and how pale and papery thin her skin is, but still Heddi grips Luce tightly, her breath warm against Luce's face.
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A word like "onion," for example, is tightly linked to all five senses: Onions have a bulbous shape, papery skin that rustles, a bitter tang and a tear-inducing odor when sliced.
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As someone who studied ancient civilizations at university, playing Uncharted 4 was a bit like making a stamp collector watch live footage of people licking the back of the queen's papery head.
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This neonatal green garlic is a boon for those enthralled by the stinking rose, yet it's mellower and fresher than the white, papery heads you get during the rest of the year.
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There are alluring textural contrasts (papery/liquid, hard/soft); at one point in the beautiful third pair of canons, the strings play drooping chords as the clarinet's line accompanies, spare and doleful.
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It arrives with browned skin so papery crisp, it cracks like a chip upon meeting the knife and glazes one's lips with the sort of sheen all lip glosses should aspire to.
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Ground cherries—or husk cherries or gooseberries—are akin to tomatillos, in that they grow inside a papery husk, but are more similar in flavor and texture to a fruit like a tomato.
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When they ripen, however, their thin husks turn tan and papery before they drop to the ground—thus their name—presumably to get eaten up and have their seeds spread by forest creatures.
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An attempt at eggplant carnitas, with an underseasoned salsa of green strawberries and a charred, papery tortilla, was enough to make you wish Mr. McGarry had eaten more tacos before he left California.
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Hungry City 11 Photos View Slide Show ' They're ignored by much of the world, the withered, papery husks sloughed off the fruit of the coffee tree and discarded in favor of the precious beans.
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Maybe among the bright smells of the elevator, the papery odors of the books, and the perhaps unpleasant New York City street smells (where horse-drawn transportation was still present), there was a whiff of her perfume.
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Treatment choices include lubricants, applied just before intercourse to reduce the sand-papery feeling in the vagina; moisturizers, used about three times a week to keep the vagina moist; and estrogen that plumps the vaginal wall lining.
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But late Hef was a lecherous, low-brow Peter Pan, playing at perpetual boyhood — ice cream for breakfast, pajamas all day — while bodyguards shooed male celebrities away from his paid harem and the skull grinned beneath his papery skin.
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This is the first movie he's starred in since "Trouble With the Curve" (2012), and he seems papery, fragile, which gives the movie a wistful poignancy that has nothing to do with the story and everything to do with Eastwood.
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's The Row, for instance, which showed in the brand's chic, three-story walk-up on 71st Street, featured Keds (or The Row's expensive equivalent) and clothes in folk embroideries with chewy texture, or papery cotton like hospital gowns.
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Such techniques ironically use Instagram to reassert the traditional notion that genuine poetic expression looks inky and papery — that a poet's work appears most authentic not on an ephemeral, impersonal screen but on the scribbly, insistently material paper she has physically inscribed.
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Indeed, folding is an integral component in experiencing these multifunctional items: The shirt, papery nylon with removable arms and plexiglass zipper pulls, can be tucked into its own back pocket, and the sleeping bag rolls out of the side compartment of an oversize lambskin duffel.
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On Thursday, the day the dish would premiere as a special, Mr. Fox discovered that the blueberries he had dehydrated to sprinkle atop the chicken-liver toast — adding sweetness, tartness and a bit of crunch — had grown a papery outer skin that he didn't like.
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Below, you can see some examples from Flowers of the Holy Land, including blooms from Mount Moriah arranged in a bouquet, a branch from the Mount of Olives, papery yellow petals from Gethsemane, red bursts from Mount Scopus, and botanicals from Mount Carmel layered over a cross.
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Hidden in their roost, the Ronens have observed deer, rabbits, coyotes and black bears walking undisturbed below them; so integrated does the building feel that, beneath the eave of the rearmost window, a family of yellow jackets built a papery summer home of their own, not unlike one of Gibbon's designs.
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He had warmed over the dead gods of the months and he had written about wasps a couple of times, wrung some wonder from contemplating their world of insectual intent—the papery nests, the cells of mathematical perfection, the nurses and the workers, the grubs that waited for transformation behind their silken doors, their black eyes perfectly visible. . . .
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It was good on the runway, and even better off of it, where Ms. Gerbase could point out the way that layers of coat, jacket, pants and shirt in papery nylon were thin and light enough to feel like less than one, or the "hidden humor" of the construction process, how she stitched pant-length and collar-width measurements almost invisibly into the garments themselves.
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There is a scene toward the end in which Trier allows a handheld camera to linger squarely on Huppert's face, so that the audience can absorb the lines dug into her brow, the skin made papery with age, the eyes that peer out with a coolness bordering on disdain—and it is as if Trier is saying that even this unfiltered glimpse into her soul, this exercise in cinéma vérité, is just another facet.
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That suspension of a large swarm a cause of wonder and his mother with an explanation for a small child: They have just been born, up in the heavens, and have been sent down to earth right now , as if heaven were up above behind the canopy of the blue sky, the dragonflies shimmering their papery net-wings, a dazzling whirr in the clear light, having just pierced the blue screen above in their birth and descent.
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When artichokes are good, they will appear on the menu under antipasti (sliced into a clean and guileless salad of pale, papery shavings that squeak between your teeth, dressed with shards of Parmigiano-Reggiano and a peppery young olive oil); contorni (fried until their young leaves are curled, crisp and bronze); and primi (layered with béchamel into a green lasagna, as plump and yielding as a featherbed, with so many thin and tender pasta sheets that I have never been able count them all, though I should say that I am usually preoccupied with eating them).
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The seeds are flat and oblong, with a papery wing.
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It is long and thin and dries to a papery texture.
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Leaves can be as much as 7 cm long, thin and papery.
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The fruits are oval-shaped with a glabrous, papery covering and are long.
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The pods are papery, up to eight centimetres long and about five millimetres wide.
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Lazarus, lurching from the tomb, layered in graveclothes like an onion in papery skins.
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The fruit is a small, spherical legume pod which dries to a stiff papery texture.
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The fruit is a densely hairy, papery legume pod up to 4 centimeters in length.
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The flowers themselves are small, with purple petals and yellow spots, and a fragile, papery texture.
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Following flowering the species will form long, flat, pods with a papery texture containing large, flat seeds.
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It is flat and narrow, with a hairy surface, and it dries to a thick papery texture.
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The flat, smooth, brittle and papery seed pods. The pods have a length of and a width of .
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The fruit is a pale-colored legume pod up to 3 centimeters long which dries to a papery texture.
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The fruit is an inflated legume pod 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters long which dries to a stiff papery texture.
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These bracts are papery and dry, or scarious, with a low water content, unlike leaves or flower parts of other plants.
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The fruit is an inflated legume pod up to 6 centimeters long and 3 wide which dries to a thin, papery texture.
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The fruit is a rounded legume pod long which dries to a very thin papery texture and has a coat of hairs.
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Leaves are non-compound, thin and papery, up to 10 cm wide and 12 cm across, with 5 lobes but occasionally 3.
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They are papery to thinly leathery, and sometimes minutely hairy. The seeds are longitudinal with the funicle folded 3 or 4 times.
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This fused corpuscle dries out in the plant's dormancy period, eventually becoming a papery sheath in which the new (separate) leaf-pair forms.
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Flowering occurs throughout the year and is followed by fruits which oval-shaped to almost spherical, long and have a hairy, papery covering.
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Flowering occurs from August to October and is followed by fruits which are woody with a hairy, papery covering, oval shaped and long.
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There are four stamens which are fully enclosed in the tube. The fruit is dry, flask-shaped, about long with a papery covering.
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Flowering occurs from June to July and is followed by fruit which are dry, almost spherical, long and have a glabrous, papery covering.
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The firmly papery to thinly crustaceous seed pods that form after flowering are curved or openly coiled and are in length and wide.
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The fruit is a papery capsule which splits longitudinally into four valves. The plant is thought to reproduce both clonally and by seed.
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Flowering occurs between April and November and is followed by fruits which are oblong in shape long and have a hairy, papery covering.
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Melaleuca glomerata is an erect, spreading small tree or shrub growing to with spreading or straggly branches and white, papery bark. The leaves are mostly linear, tapering to a point, flat, long and wide. They are also grey-green and slightly hairy to very densely covered with flattened hairs. As with many other melaleucas, the bark is white and papery.
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Burnupena papyracea, common name the papery burnupena, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
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Anisophyllea chartacea is a tree of Borneo in the family Anisophylleaceae. The specific epithet ' is from the Latin meaning "papery", referring to the leaves.
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Flowering occurs mostly from June to August and is followed by fruits which are dry, woody, oval-shaped with a papery covering and long.
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The cones with their papery bracts, that look like spruce cones and are known as “sabulosum cones”, are sometimes gathered and used in potpourri.
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The fruit is an inflated legume pod up to 3 centimeters long. It is usually roughly hairy and dries to a thick papery texture.
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Bougainvillea glabra is sometimes referred to as "paper flower" because the bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow five-lobed achene.
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The fruit is an inflated legume pod 2 to 3 centimeters long which dries to a thin, papery texture. Its single chamber contains many seeds.
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These flowers are mostly bisexual, however L. lanigerum is an andromonoecious species as plants also produce some functionally male flowers. Smooth, papery L. lanigerum bark.
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Romulea monadelpha is a low geophyte of high, with a subterranean stem that grows from a corm with a rounded base, which has a tunic with curved acuminate teeth. Its three to five thread-like leaves grow directly out of the soil and are in diameter, and have four grooves along their lengths. Its flowers sit individually at the tip of a flower stalk (or pedicel) and are subtended by two bracts that both mostly have brown papery margins. The outer bract usually has one keel on the upper side and a narrow papery margin, the inner bract has two keels with a wider papery margin.
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They are white or off-white in color. The fruit is a legume pod less than a centimeter long which dries to a thick papery texture.
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The fruit is a hanging legume pod up to 4 centimeters long. It is inflated but narrow and dries to a thin, almost transparent papery texture.
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Flowering occurs from October to January and is followed by fruits which follow are dry, woody, oval to bottle- shaped, about long with a papery covering.
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The hairless involucre consists of hairless, cartilaginous bracts (or phyllaries) with papery, sometimes serrated edges. Those on the outside are oval, the inner phyllaries are narrower.
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It has drooping spikes which are 8–9 mm thick. Its perigynium beaks are papery and fragile. It produces fruits in late spring and early summer.
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Leaves are non-compound, up to 14 cm wide and 8 cm across, thin and papery, with no lobes, but sometimes with small teeth along the edges.
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The fruit is an inflated legume pod up to 2.5 centimeters long. It dries to a thin papery texture and contains many seeds in its single chamber.
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The 4 stamens extend slightly beyond the end of the tube. Flowering is followed by fruits which are dry, cylinder-shaped, long and have a papery covering.
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Each follicle usually contains one or two small seeds, each with a wedge-shaped papery wing that causes it to spin as it falls to the ground.
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The 5-petaled, diameter flowers form in corymbs. The flowers are white to pinkish, blooming from May to June in North America. In Missouri the fruits ripen from August to early October and are small, dry pods hanging in drooping, papery clusters. The bark peels off in thin papery strips, resembling the number nine in shape, exposing brown inner bark which is the origin of the common name.
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Each flower is subtended by two bracts. The outer bract has a narrow papery margin, while the inner one has a wide papery margin with a brown edge. The flowers do not smell and are white on the inside, yolk yellow near the centre, and have a purple wash on the outside of the six elliptic tepals of long. The stamens consist of long filaments topped by long anthers.
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As with others in the genus, it is distinguished by its minute flowers which are on the end of a spike and hidden by large, overlapping, papery bracts.
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The fruits are inflated papery capsules, 2-3 lobed, up to long, ripening from September to November. The seeds are edible, and are said to taste like pistachios.
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Leaves are compound with 3 leaflets, each leaflet up to 15 cm wide and 6 cm across, thin and papery, with a few shallow teeth along the edges.
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The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering time depends on subspecies. The fruits are dry, woody, oval-shaped, long and have a hairy, papery covering.
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Leaf 3 has been removed to use for vegetative propagation. The leaves change morphology dramatically as the plant grows. Young plants have a deep channel, which runs the full length of each leaf, and has reddish-brown margins edged with a papery brown cuticle. As the plant matures, the edges of newer leaves roll together to form a smooth cylindrical leaf with a dried papery cuticle at the tip and base of each leaf.
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Flowering occurs between June and September and is followed by fruits which are flattened and dry with papery wings. E. pterocarpa subsp. acicularis growing east of Shark BayE. pterocarpa subsp.
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3, part 2. 1972. JSTOR Global Plants. The leaf sheath has a fleshy base covered in white hairs and the ligule can be stiff and dry, becoming "papery".Leersia hexandra.
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Average annual growth is . The dorsal leaves are gray in the spring. Leaflets are thin, papery, or herbaceous, long, narrow, oblong, oval or needle-shaped. Their margins are coarsely toothed.
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The glabrous to sparsely hairy seed pods have a length of and a width of and have a firmly papery to thinly leathery texture and are smooth or wrinkled longitudinally.
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The flowers are pink to white, with yellow marks. Fruits are samaras with three spreading, papery oblanceolate to elliptic wings, 2–5 cm long, and propagate via wind or by cuttings.
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The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from July to August and the fruits which follow are dry, oval-shaped and long with a papery covering.
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Tinospora is a genus of succulent woody climbing shrubs. Thirty-nine species are currently recognized. Species generally send down long aerial roots from host trees. They have corky or papery bark.
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Muiria in dormancy, in papery sheaths after finishing flowering. Unlike most other plants in its family, Muiria is covered in soft downy fur (from which it gets its common name) and has leaves that are entirely fused together, into one smooth rounded body. In the summer it produces white or pink flowers, that tear through the (still living) flesh of the plant. The flesh then withers into a papery sheath, within which the new body forms.
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Papery burnupena on lacy false coral at the Drop Zone in False Bay This marine species occurs off the west coast of South Africa from Namibia to Hermanus, subtidally to 37m, Endemic.
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The dried bags help with seed dispersal by wind. Flowering is generally April through June, but the bags are durable and may last on the plant into winter, becoming dry and papery.
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Leaves are non-compound, thin and papery, up to 6 cm wide and 6 cm across, usually with 9 lobes but occasionally only 7. Leaflets sometimes have numerous teeth along the edges.
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The alternating bracts are arranged in 2 files along the raceme, and eventually turn papery as they dry out. The small, cylindrical pods release their tiny black and red seeds by explosive dehiscence.
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The fruit is a legume pod, curved to bent in shape and drying to a papery, hairy texture. It is in length and contains around 18 to 20 seeds in its two chambers.
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The pod dries to a papery texture and dehisces starting at the beak to release the seeds. The epithet lentiginosus refers to the red mottling commonly found on the pods which resemble freckles.
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They are white, fading yellow. They open at night and dry out and die the next day. The fruit is a woody capsule containing papery winged seeds.Cosmibuena. Selected Rubiaceae Tribes and Genera. Tropicos.
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The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from June to August and the fruits which follow are woody, oval to almost spherical, long with a hairy, yellow, papery covering.
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The long fruits curve downward and resemble the wings of a large bird or dangling sickles or swords in the night, giving the name "tree of Damocles". The seeds are round with papery wings.
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Selected Rubiaceae Tribes and Genera. Tropicos. This is a tree with oppositely arranged leaves and terminal inflorescences. The white flowers have funnel-shaped corollas with five triangular lobes. The fruit is a papery cylindrical capsule.
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Mitrophyllum mitratum showing the papery sheath in which the new pairs of leaves are held before rains. Mitrophyllum clivorum. Mitrophyllum grande. The species generally grow stems, at the top of which two succulent leaves appear.
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There are 4 stamens which are enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering mostly occurs from winter to late spring and is followed by fruit which are oval-shaped, long and woody with a papery covering.
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Following flowering it produces straight, thinly leathery to firmly papery, brittle seed pods that are flat but are raised over each of the seeds. The pods are in length and wide with sparsely distributed hairs.
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The species is perennial and caespitose with culms long. The internodes are scaberulous. The leaf-sheaths are tubular and scabrous, closed for part of their length. The ligule is a papery membrane which lacks hairs.
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This species is onion-shaped and single-bodied. It is slow-growing and usually solitary. It forms a protective papery sheath during its dry dormancy. Its pale yellow, nocturnal flowers have 18 to 26 petals.
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The 4 stamens extend beyond the end of the petal tube. Flowering occurs from May to October and the fruits which follow are almost spherical in shape, wrinkled, glabrous and long with a papery covering.E.
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The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from June to August and is followed by fruit which are dry, woody, oval-shaped, about long and have a hairy, papery covering.
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The 4 stamens extend beyond the end of the petal tube. Flowering occurs from July to September and is followed by fruits which are dry, oval-shaped with a glabrous, papery covering and are long.
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The 4 stamens extend beyond the end of the petal tube. Flowering mainly occurs between May and September and is followed by fruits which are nearly spherical drupes in diameter with a glabrous, papery covering.
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Diplolaena andrewsii is a wide spreading branched shrub to high. The leaves heart to egg-shaped, long, papery, sparsely covered on both sides with star- shaped, coarse, rough hairs, rounded at the apex, on a petiole long. The flowerheads are up to in diameter, outer bracts broadly oval, about long, green, rounded, papery and sparsely covered in star-shaped hairs. The inner bracts are marginally longer than outer bracts, broadly egg-shaped to narrowly oblong, reddish-brown with white edges and smooth on the outer side.
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Melaleuca arcana is a small tree or large shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia. It has papery bark and small heads of white flowers in summer.
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The fruit is a round wafer-like papery samara, across, light brown, and two- seeded. The fruit ripens in October, and is held on the tree until high winds shake them loose in the early winter.
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By the end of the flowering season, the flowers dry out and become papery and brown. The 1-1.5 cm leaves are ovate and obtuse; they are fragrant but not as aromatic as other oregano species.
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Goniothalamus chartaceus is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Vietnam. Hui-lin Li, the Chinese botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its papery ( in Latin) leaves.
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Correa lawrenceana var. lawrenceana is the implicit autonym of Correa lawrenceana and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a shrub with papery, oblong leaves and pale green, narrow cylindrical flowers arranged singly on the ends of branchlets.
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Pupation takes place in a papery cocoon covered with chewed leaf. The pupa is able to produce sounds when disturbed. This is achieved by rubbing projections on the abdominal skin against the inner surface of the cocoon.
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The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from September to October and is followed by fruits which are a narrow oval shaped to almost spherical, have a papery covering and are long.
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The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs mainly from June to October and is followed by fruits which are oval to almost spherical with a pale yellow, papery covering and are long.
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It is a bush or small tree. It has smooth, black branches. Its petioles are about 5 millimeters long. Its olive-colored, smooth, oblong, papery leaves are 11-17 by 1.7-2.8 centimeters and have minute spots.
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Iris stenophylla has a very similar form to Iris persica. But with different colouring. It has bulb with brown papery tunics,British Iris Society (1997) and fleshy storage roots. The stem can be hidden by the leaves.
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The 4 stamens extend as far as the tip of the petal lobes. Flowering time depends on subspecies. The flowers are followed by fruits which are dry, long and have a prominent point and a papery covering.
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The phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic, sometimes narrowly oblanceolate shape. The flowers between January or April and September are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters in length. The pods are papery, about long and wide.
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The 4 stamens extend beyond the end of the petal tube. Flowering occurs from August to February and is followed by fruits which are dry, oval shaped with a pointed end, have a papery covering and are long.
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Flowers dry and become light and papery. The dry hanging flowers make a rustling sound when a breeze comes through, giving the whispering bells its common name. The dry flower also contains a fruit about a centimeter wide.
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The inflorescence bears up to 30 white to yellowish flowers, each between one and two centimeters long. The fruit is an inflated legume pod drying to a papery texture. It is up to about 2.5 centimeters in length.
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When dissected, aponeuroses are papery and peel off by sections. The primary regions with thick aponeuroses are in the ventral abdominal region, the dorsal lumbar region, the ventriculus in birds, and the palmar (palms) and plantar (soles) regions.
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This plant is a biennialCanavalia cathartica. Flora of China. or perennial herb with thick, twining, climbing stems. The pinnate leaves are each divided into three papery leaflets which are generally oval in shape with pointed or rounded tips.
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Melaleuca keigheryi is a shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae with white, papery bark and is endemic to the west coast of Western Australia. In spring, it has heads of pink flowers which fade in color to become white.
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Corymbia chartacea was first formally described in 1995 by Kenneth Hill and Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson in the journal Telopea. The specific epithet (chartacea) is from the Latin word chartaceus meaning "papery", referring to the texture of the leaves.
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The 4 stamens extend beyond the end of the petal tube. Flowering mainly occurs in July and August and is followed by fruits which are woody, oval-shaped to cone-shaped with a papery covering and are usually long.
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They also have a papery brown tip. The spathes surround 2 flowers (per stem branch), borne in early summer, between May and August (or June or July in the UK). The flowers come in a range of blue shades.
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It has violet flowers that are tinted yellow on the inside, and usually appear in mid-summer and continue to bloom into fall.Caldecott, T. Western Materia Medica: Lobelia inflata (pdf file) The seedcases are small, brown, dehiscent, and papery.
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Vachellia abyssinica (flat top acacia) is a tree up to 16 m tall. Its bark is reddish-brown on older trees. On younger trees it is pale yellowish-brown, peeling off in papery wads. Young twigs are softly hairy.
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In this species, the "flowers" are themselves arranged in corymbs, the corymbs in branching heads containing from a few to hundreds of individual "flowers". The white or pinkish coloration is due to the papery ray florets around individual "flowers".
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B. rosserae grows as a multi-stemmed shrub high, and wide. The trunks are from in diameter. Unusually for Banksia species, the grey bark is papery and flaky. The leaves are dark green, long and wide, with serrated margins.
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The sepals are brownish or purplish fading to thinned, papery, whitish or translucent edges. The fruit is a minute utricle measuring half a millimeter long. The two subspecies differ in size; ssp. minima has a smaller caudex and smaller inflorescences.
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The younger parts of the rhizome are covered by red-brown, papery, triangular scales, which also cover the base of the culms. Botanically, these represent reduced leaves, so strictly it is not quite correct to call this plant fully "leafless".
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Melaleuca globifera is a shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy, small tree with papery bark and spherical heads of flowers on the ends of the branches.
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The papery bark of Polylepis racemosa, protects the tree from low temperatures. Flora and fauna in the range have adapted to the climate and elevational range of mountainous areas. Almost all of the Cordillera Blanca is protected by Huascarán National Park.
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Hypericum kalmianum is a slender shrub that grows to a height of . Its bark is whitish and papery. It has ascending four-edged branches that bear two-edged branchlets. The crowded bluish-green leaves are linear to oblanceolate and long.
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The internodes are long, exceeding all leaves except some of the uppermost. The sessile, spreading, persistent leaves are long and wide. The leaves are papery and membranous. Lower leaves are ovate or elliptic and upper leaves are ovate or suborbicular.
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The species petioles are long while the margins are papery, yellow in colour, and are long. It legume is oblong, swollen and is long. The leaf blade surface is shiny and hairless. The raceme is inflorescenced and is with many flowers.
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Following flowering it will produce brittle firmly papery seed pods that are flat and straight but are constricted between seeds. The glabrous pods are in length and wide finely reticulated veins and often covered in a fine white powdery coating.
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Species of larger stature have a characteristic brown bark with narrow and sharp furrows, most are small single stemmed trees. However, the bark of many species of smaller stature is varied and may be papery white or smooth dark red black.
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The oval-leaf pincushion differs from its nearest relatives by its small, entire, densely overlapping, egg-shaped leaves of 1–2½ cm long, the papery involucral bracts that form a conspicuous involucre and the cone- to egg-shaped pollen presenter.
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Each flower is bicolored, the lower petals usually white and the upper banner petals purple to purple-veined white. The fruit is a hairy, oval-shaped legume pod up to half a centimeter long which dries to a papery texture.
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The flowerheads are on stalks and have a diameter of .The inflorescence bracts are papery, the outer ones greenish yellow in colour, and the inner ones pink-tinged white. It is difficult to distinguish from white flowered forms of X. bracteatum.
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It is mostly hairless but sometimes has glandular hairs with tubercular bases. The leaves are up to 10 centimeters long. Each leaf is made up of many narrow, papery leaflets each up to 1.3 centimeters long. Some leaves are sensitive.
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It is a tree reaching 30 meters in height and 30 centimeters in diameter. Its petioles are 5-15 millimeters long. Its leaves are arranged in two rows. Its elliptical to oval, papery leaves are 10-25 by 3-8 centimeters.
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It is a bush reaching 5 meters in height. Its black to brown, young branches are covered in soft downy hairs. Its wrinkled, gray mature branches are hairless. Its oval to oblong, papery leaves are 4.1-8.5 by 1.4-3.8 centimeters.
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They grow from whitish papery stipules with two lobes and red bases. The tiny clusters of two or three flowers grow in the leaf axils. The flowers are about long, pink, green or dull white. The flowers are normally self-pollinated.
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The 4 stamens are enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering time is from June to October. The flowers are followed by fruits which are a flattened oval-shaped to almost spherical, long and have a hairy, papery covering.Wiluna E. spectabilis subsp.
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Habit Boronia chartacea is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to the north coast of New South Wales. It is a shrub with simple, papery leaves and bright pink flowers, usually arranged singly in the leaf axils.
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The erect inflorescence may be up to 1.6 meters tall, bearing branches lined with tiny flowers each with six whitish tepals a few millimeters long. The fruit is a papery capsule containing reddish brown seeds about half a centimeter wide.
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Tuber and roots in genus cyclamen A tuber of Cyclamen purpurascens with three floral trunks The storage organ of the cyclamen is a round tuber that develops from the hypocotyl (the stem of a seedling). It is often mistakenly called a corm, but a corm (found in crocuses, for example) has a papery tunic and a basal plate from which the roots grow. The storage organ of the cyclamen has no papery covering and, depending on the species, roots may grow out of any part. It is therefore properly classified as a tuber (somewhat like a potato).
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Flowerheads are set individually at the end of a branch of up to 30 cm long, with a few small papery bracts, more densely set near the flowerhead. Flowerheads are enclosed in an involucre of 1½–2½ cm long, which has a diameter of 1–2 cm. The individual bracts are papery, egg-shaped, 1–2½ cm long, ⅓–½ cm wide, hairless and ending abruptly in a small sharp point as a continuation of the darker colored midrib. The common base at which the florets are implanted (or receptacle) is flat, with a scale subtending every floret.
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The floral base is flat and in diameter. It is covered below by felty to hairless, papery, egg-shaped, long pointed, overlapping involucral bracts of long and wide, sometimes with a tuft of long hairs at its tip. The papery bracts at the base of the individual flowers are very narrowly lance-shaped, long, wooly near the base and sofly hairy towards the tip. The individual flower bud is a straight tube of about long, slightly transparante, initially whitish- transparent to pale yellowish green, yellow when opening, quickly becoming orange and turning bright crimson with age.
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Q. hiholensis acorns range in size from to with an umbo on the tip of some nuts, but absent on others. Of the twenty-six identified Q. hiholensis acorns, only one specimen has a nut emerging from the cupule, while in the others only the perianth and styles, or umbo show. The exteriors of the cupules comprise helically arranged scales that have a papery tip and range up to with the papery tip extending up to further. The cupule has patches of sclereids scattered through it with some of the sclereids that are associated with scale bases organized into white star shaped patches.
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Flowers are replaced in summer by small, globular, papery capsules, about 3 mm across, containing a cluster of buff coloured, sesame-like seeds. Like many southern Australian flowers, the plant dies back in summer, but reshoots the following autumn when the rains return.
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Schiedea membranacea is a rare 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 only from the island of Kauai.Schiedea membranacea. The Nature Conservancy.
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The ends of the stems have inflorescences which are dense racemes of yellow flowers. The petals are roughly one centimeter long. The fruit is an inflated silicle up to long by wide which is firm to papery and fuzzy in texture.Physaria didymocarpa.
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Thomasia grandiflora, commonly known as large-flowered thomasia, is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The flowers are pinkish-purple with a papery appearance hanging in pendents from the leaf axils. The calyx lobes are prominent and larger than the petals.
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It is a bush reaching 4 meters in height. Its oblong, papery leaves are 14-22 by 5-8 centimeters. The tips of the leaves come to a shallow point. The upper surface of the leaves are dark green, shiny and hairless.
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The 4 stamens extend beyond the end of the petal tube. Flowering occurs from June to December and is followed by woody, oval-shaped to top-shaped fruits with a pointed end and which are long and have a thin, papery covering.
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The giant boat-lip orchid grows in rainforest and other moist habitats on trees with fibrous or papery bark and on rocks and cliffs. It is found from the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland south to the Hastings River in New South Wales.
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After the iris has flowered, it produces an ellipsoid, seed capsule, 1.5–2.5 cm long, with 6 ridges, between May and August. Inside the capsule, are reddish brown to brown, pyriform (pear shaped) or globose seeds, which have a papery testa (coating).
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Flowering occurs in June. The fruit is a papery, inflated, hairy, black legume pod up to 2.5 centimeters long. This is a plant of arctic habitat types such as tundra. The northernmost record is from Southampton Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Prairie nymph -- Herbertia lahue Herbaceous and perennial plants, from tunicate, ovoid bulbs with brown, dry, brittle and papery tunics. The stems are simple or branched. The leaves are few, with the basal ones larger than the others; the blade is pleated, linear-lanceolate.
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Branchlets downy at first, later become smooth, brown tinged with red, lenticular, finally they become darker and the papery outer layer becomes easily separable. ; Wood: Pale brown; light, soft, close-grained but weak. Specific gravity, 0.5451; weight of cu. ft., 33.97 lbs.
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The 4 stamens extend beyond the end of the petal tube. Flowering time depends on subspecies and the fruit which follows flowering is dry, cone- shaped to oval-shaped and long with a papery covering.E. youngii subsp. youngii growing near Shark BayE.
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Diplolaena cinerea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the west coast of Western Australia. It has pale orange flowers, papery, elliptic shaped leaves that are covered in star-shaped hairs on the upper surface.
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Schizolaena masoalensis grows as a liana or tree. Its papery leaves are elliptic to ovate in shape and are coloured grayish green above, tinted orangish below. They measure up to long. The inflorescences bear many flowers, each with three sepals and five petals.
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The fruit is some 30 mm in diameter, berry-like, brown at first turning bright red when ripe. Bark is white, papery and smooth, with prominent, crescent-shaped leaf scars. Old bark is smooth and grey, and longitudinally fissured, producing resin when damaged.
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Each bears a single tiny flower with white petals above red- purple sepals. The fruit is a flat, round capsule, shaped like a disc or somewhat oval, and 6 to 12 millimeters wide. The green fruit dries to a papery gray or white.
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Correa eburnea, commonly known as the Deep Creek correa, is a species of shrub that is endemic to the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. It has papery, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and up to five green, nodding flowers arranged in leaf axils.
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There are six papery perianth segments, with the inner shorter than the outer. The anthers are oblong and apiculate and the ovaries are rudimentary. The female spikelets may be single or several. They are borne in spicate cymes subtended by a persistent spathe.
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Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones.1. Wellington, N.Z., O. colensoi can grow into a tree 10 metres high that has thick, serrated leaves. The bark is light brown and papery with branches covered in woolly hairs. The flowers are typically dark red or yellow.
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The stems of Hypericum umbraculoides are reddish and its bark is grey. The oblong, papery leaves are sessile, up to long and broad, and paler underneath. The flowers are up to across with 5 golden-yellow petals. Its growth rate and height are unknown.
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Melaleuca adnata, commonly known as sandhill honey-myrtle, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tall shrub with papery bark and spikes of white flowers in spring and early summer.
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The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The leaves are heart-shaped, shiny, with 5-7 prominent veins. The seed pods are rounded, green or pink before drying to a straw brown papery texture. The edible tubers are typically slender and long.
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The base of the flower is encased in a papery 10-veined calyx of sepals.Silene polypetala. Flora of North America. The plant can reproduce vegetatively by resprouting from its rhizome, so what appears to be several plants may be one plant with genetically identical clones.
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The other setae has small blackish cheta by giving characteristic appearance. Mesothorax bears a dorso-median line of black setae. The caterpillar is known to feed on Lespedeza and Dalbergia species. Pupation takes place in an elongated whitish papery cocoon attached to the host plant.
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They are covered by a prominently whitish to brown reniform (kidney-shaped) indusium. Fronds are very dissected, being 3-pinnate. The stipe may bear long, pale brown, papery scales at the base. The spores are yellow on A. angustum and dark brown on A. asplenioides.
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Its papery leaves are smooth on their upper and lower surfaces. Its petioles are 5-8 millimeters long. Its flowers are solitary and axillary. Each flower is on a pedicel 17-20 millimeters long. Its flowers have 3 sepals that are 4 by 12 millimeters.
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Although, larger forms are known to be much bigger, growing up to between long.} It has normally 1 or more short branches.John Kirkegaard Christopher Brickell (Editor) The stems have 2–3 spathes (leaves of the flower bud), which are papery (in form) and long.
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Diplolaena drummondii is an endemic Australian flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. It is only found in Western Australia. It is a small, spreading shrub with oblong to elliptic papery, thin leaves, and yellow, orange or reddish flowers which bloom between July and November.
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The larvae feed on Streblus and Ficus species. A silken cocoon is oval and pale.Immature Stages of Four Bombycidae Species of Taiwan Pupation takes place in a boat-shaped cocoon, closely woven with white or yellow rather-papery silk. The pupa is pale yellow.
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Ants have been observed carrying away seeds of B. microphylla<. The exfoliating papery bark of many of the trivalvate species may serve to attract the attention of birds and other animals from a distance as it rustles in the breeze (Rzedowski and Kruse 1979).
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The tree has papery, flaky yellow-brown bark and typically grows to a height of . The trunk of the tree rarely exceeds in diameter. The slender glabrous branchlets are often pendulous in form. The grey- greenphyllodes have a length of and a width of .
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The fruits are dehiscent, splitting open along three prominent valves when mature and releasing up to 20 seeds each. Covered by a cream to brownish husk with three papery wings, the seeds are oblong to triangular, long and wide, containing a smooth, whitish grey kernel.
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The involucral bracts between the individual heads are thin and papery. The pappus consists of a circle of scales around the tip of the cypselas. Flowering usually appears from June to September, rarely extending to December. This species has seven sets of homologue chromosomes (2n=14).
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Melaleuca acuminata is an erect, rather open shrub with papery or fibrous bark and many ascending branches. The leaves are in alternating pairs on either side of the stem (decussate), narrow elliptic in shape, long, wide with a short petiole.M. acuminata foliage, flowers and fruit.M. acuminata barkM.
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M. pachycarpa is a climbing shrub. It has dark brown inflated legumes that are densely covered with rough pale yellow warts. The leguminous pods contain one to five dark brown reniform seeds. The leaves have 13 to 17 papery leaflets and the flowers are lilac-colored.
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Flora of North America. There are three subspecies of this plant. The ssp. lanata is native to Montana and Wyoming.ssp. lanata. Flora of North America. The ssp. lyrata, a taxon characterized by its very inflated, papery fruits, is endemic to Idaho.ssp. lyrata. Flora of North America.
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The leaves have tapered, papery sheaths and seed clusters sunken under the edges. The flower is a scarcely branched plume with closely packed spines on single branches. The spines are edible by humans and baboons. The drought tolerant species grows on disturbed veld and stony hillsides.
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Occasionally reaching 30 metres in height and 90 cm in trunk diameter, the tree's crown is dense with small leaves, above a tall straight trunk. Large trees are buttressed at the base. The bark is red brown, light grey or pinkish grey with soft papery scales.
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It is a tree reaching 8 meters in height. Its branches have lenticels. Its papery leaves are 10-12 by 3-4 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The leaves are smooth on their upper and lower surfaces. Its petioles are 2 millimeters long.
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It is a tree reaching 7 meters in height. Its mature, dark branches are hairless. Its sparsely hairy to hairless petioles are 1 - 1.5 centimeters long. Its olive-green, papery, oblong to elliptical leaves are 22-30 by 6-10 centimeters and shiny on both sides.
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Ovules 1 per carpel Flowering season in India are from the month of December to May. Fruit: Fruits green to greenish brown, papery in texture. Samaras about 5-6 x 1–2 cm. Main vascular bundle to the seed connected to an intramarginal vein on the samara.
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The calyx tube itself is not scarious (papery and membranous) at the joints between the lobes. It is a plant of often calcareous grassland but may also be found on rocky ground and occasionally on old mine spoil.Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening.
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The fruit is an inflated silique drying to a papery texture and measuring about half a centimeter wide.Paysonia perforata. Flora of North America. This species is similar to Paysonia stonensis, another Tennessee endemic, from which it differs only in the arrangement of hairs on its fruits.
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The species' rachis is scaorus while it branches are scabrous. It spikelets are obconic and are violet in colour. It also have filiform pedicels which are curved and puberulent. The species' lower glume is long and wide and is also either obovate or flabelliform and papery-membranous.
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After flowering papery to crustaceous seed pods form that have a narrowly oblong to linear shape. The glabrous pods have a length of up to and a width of containing longitudinally arranged seeds inside. The dark brown to black coloured arillate seeds have a length of .
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Melaleuca alternifolia is a small tree to about with a bushy crown and whitish, papery bark. The leaves are arranged alternately, sometimes scattered or whorled. The leaves are smooth, soft, linear in shape, long and wide. They are also rich in oil with the glands prominent.
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Oil dots may clearly be seen under a lens. The bark is soft, papery and fissured, grey brown in colour. Small white flowers appear in December to January. The fruit is a berry, starting green, then turning yellow, orange, red, then black; around 10 mm in diameter.
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A "cone" may be embedded with up to 60 follicles, although usually there are very few or even none at all. Unusually for Banksia, each follicle contains just one seed. This is shiny black, oval in shape, about 20 millimetres (¾ in) long, with a brown papery wing.
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Melaleuca cheelii is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland. It is a shrub or tree to with white flowers and papery bark. It has been classified as "near threatened" by the government of Queensland.
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Boronia chartacea was first formally described in 1990 by Peter H. Weston and the description was published in Telopea from a specimen collected near Urunga. The specific epithet (chartacea) is a Latin word meaning "of paper", referring to the leaves that are papery and brittle when dried.
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The petals are long, thin, papery and orange to brown. The stamens are arranged in 5 claw-like bundles usually with 12 to 17 stamens per bundle. Flowering probably occurs in response to rainfall and is followed by fruits which are woody capsules, long and in diameter.
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It is a small tree. Its mature branches are smooth. Its internodes are 3–5 centimeters long. Its hairless petioles are 5–7 millimeters long and 3 millimeters thick and have a deep groove on their upper surfaces. Its papery, elliptical leaves are 19–23 by 7.5–10.5 centimeters.
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The leaves are trifoliate. leaflets are papery, with a glabrous upper surface. Inflorescences are densely spicate-racemose or paniculate, and bracts are foliaceous or dry, persistent or deciduous. Pods are small and turn brown when ripening; they are dehiscent, generally with two shiny black seeds in the vessel.
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Adults false pit scales are yellow to reddish-brown and have a waxy, papery test with about eight transverse ridges giving it a corrugated appearance. There is a longitudinal ridge in the center of the test and an anal opening with rolled up edges at the posterior end.
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Typewritten page of canary onionskin, 1912. Note the translucency in the upper right corner, where the red library stamp on the obverse is visible. Onionskin or onion skin is a thin, light-weight, strong, often translucent paper. Though not made from onions, it superficially resembles their thin, papery skins.
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This is supported on a five-lobed calyx, within an arrangement of up to 10 partly fused bracts. As with all the Malvales, the flowers last around a day – becoming deeply coloured and papery when spent. They are numerous in the long flowering period between June and January.
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It is a bush or small tree reaching 6 meters in height. Its branches have lenticels. Its papery leaves are 6-18 by 3.3-8 centimeters and rounded at their tips. The leaves are smooth on their upper and lower surfaces. Its petioles are 4-8 millimeters long.
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Tristaniopsis collina is a small to medium tree, up to in height and up to in trunk diameter. The trunk is irregular, not cylindrical. The bark is grey or creamy, very thin, with papery fibres that come off to touch. Branchlets are coloured purple and angular in cross section.
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It may have several thin leaves. The stems are topped with papery spikelets about half a centimeter long at maximum size and containing 4 to 12 flowers, each covered with a light-colored bract. The fruit is a minute white or yellow achene less than a millimeter long.
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The simple inflorescences occur singly in the axil of the phyllodes. The globose flower heads with a diameter of and contain 35 to 60 bright yellow flowers. Following flowering smooth papery seed pods form. The pods are straight and slightly constricted between seeds with a length of and wide.
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The mound nests of C. lacteus are smaller than those of the magnetic termite Amitermes meridionalis. The outer layer is thick and hard and inside this is a hard mass of cemented soil particles and a central soft, papery nursery area where the queen and developing nymphs live.
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Melaleuca alsophila, commonly known as the saltwater paperbark, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the north of Western Australia. It is a dense shrub or small tree with fibrous or papery bark and is common in areas seasonally inundated during the wet season.
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The branches and trunk, in diameter, are erect to ascending, making it more tall than wide. Large, flaky, papery, gray plates cover its smooth, white bark. Young twigs, petioles, and flower axils sometimes have short, tiny hairs, but are mostly glabrous. The crown is spread out and sparse.
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Pandorea pandorana, commonly known as the wonga wonga vine, is a species of woody climbing vine in the family Bignoniaceae. It is found in Australia, Malesia and the southwestern Pacific region. It forms large pointed pods filled with papery seeds. It is easy to germinate, having two-lobed dicotyledons.
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Mountain akeake is a small, bushy shrub or tree that grows up to 6 metres tall and 3 metres wide. It has thin, papery bark and angular branchlets covered in white tomentum. Leaves are oblong-lanceolate in shape. They are dark green in colour with a downy, white underside.
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It is dioecious, meaning that male and female flowers are on separate trees. Leaves are non-compound, up to 14 cm wide and 8 cm across, thin and papery, usually with 5 lobes but sometimes with only 3. Flowers are purple, unlike the green flowers of most maples.
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Its leaves are up to long and are made up of many oblong leaflets. The inflorescence is a dense cluster of up to 30 cream-colored flowers, each around in length. The fruit is a hanging legume pod up to long which is papery in texture and mostly hairless.
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Schizolaena milleri grows as a tree up to tall. Its papery leaves are elliptic to ovate in shape and are coloured grayish green above, brown tinged red below. They measure up to long. The inflorescences typically bear four flowers, each with three sepals and five bright pink petals.
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A central cluster of pale yellow flowers is surrounded by petal-like white, papery bracts. These appear between September and February in the species' native range. These are followed by small dry achenes that have silky hairs. The species occurs in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
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The hermaphroditic flowers are held in cymes on short peduncles among the foliage; each flower is long, with five tiny white petals and numerous stamens. The seed pod is flat, long and wide, and contains 7–12 seeds, each of which is surrounded by a winged papery envelope.
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In an Auckland garden, four males were observed gathering around the female while the female stroked one, which was directly in front of her, with her legs. However no actual transfer of sperm was observed. Females can be found guarding a small, papery, brown, spindle-shaped egg sac.
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Correa calycina, commonly known as the South Australian green correa or Hindmarsh correa, is a species of tall, dense shrub that is endemic to a small area of South Australia. It has papery, oblong leaves and pendulous green flowers arranged singly on the ends of short side branches.
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The lateral lobes of the labellum are erect and partly surround the column. The column is about long, wide and green to whitish with red markings and has narrow wings. Flowering occurs between late September and early November and is followed by the fruit which is a papery capsule.
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Melaleuca stereophloia is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is similar to the broombush, Melaleuca uncinata with its needle-like leaves and heads of yellow to white flowers, but its back is hard and fibrous rather than papery .
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Leptospermum lamellatum is a shrub that typically grows to a height of about or a tree to more than . The main stems have layers of papery, reddish bark. Younger stems are thin and covered at first with silky hairs. The leaves are narrow elliptical, long and wide and often slightly curved.
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Melaleuca johnsonii is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is similar to Melaleuca thapsina with its cylindrical leaves with prickly tips and usually yellow heads of flowers but is distinguished from it by its shorter leaves and papery sepals.
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The heads are up to in diameter and composed of 4 to 7 groups of flowers in threes. The sepals are long and papery. The petals are long and fall off as the flower ages. There are five bundles of stamens around the flower, each with 3 to 5 stamens.
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Stamens are around 5 mm long including the uniseriate anthers. Fruits are up to 22 mm long and bear lanceolate valves (≤4 mm wide). Seeds are up to 8 mm long and filiform, although they lack the papery ends typical of most Nepenthes species.Rybka, V., R. Rybková & R. Cantley 2005.
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The upper leaves are narrower but not much shorter. The inflorescence is a loose raceme of flowers with yellow-green sepals and yellow petals up to a centimeter in length. The heart-shaped fruit is a hanging, inflated silique that is papery in texture and roughly half a centimeter long.Physaria obcordata.
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3D rendering of a µCT scan of a samara. Resolution is about 45 µm/voxel. The distinctive fruits are called samaras, "maple keys", "helicopters", "whirlybirds" or "polynoses". These seeds occur in distinctive pairs each containing one seed enclosed in a "nutlet" attached to a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue.
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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service. This is a deciduous shrub growing up to 2 meters tall. The oppositely arranged leaves are leathery or papery in texture and measure up to 10 centimeters long. Flowers are borne in the leaf axils on peduncles up to 2.2 centimeters long.
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It blooms from March to June. The inflorescence has 3-22 flowers per stalk, with a small, green, 5-lobed calyx around a tubular set of white to pink to purple petals, long. When dried, seed pods are papery or leathery, elliptical, and are either smooth or covered with soft hairs.
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Lonchocarpus laxiflorus is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae. The tree grows to 4–8 meters in height, has grey or yellowish bark and compound leaves. New leaves are accompanied by purple flowers on multi-branched panicles. The fruit is a glabrous papery pod, usually containing one seed.
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It is a shrub or small tree growing to 5 m in height. The chartaceous (papery), glabrous, oval leaves are 40–70 mm long, 15–27 mm wide. Clusters of small greenish yellow flowers, 2 mm long, appear from August to October. The round, purple fruits are 6 mm in diameter.
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It is a tree reaching 4 meters in height. Its branches have lenticels. Its papery leaves are 12-13 by 4-5 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The leaves are smooth on their upper and lightly hairy on their lower surfaces. Its petioles are 8 millimeters long.
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It is a bush or small tree. It has thin branches that are covered in fine, copper-colored hair when they are young. Its petioles are 5 millimeters long. Its hairless, papery, olive-colored leaves are 8-12 by 2-3 centimeters and come to a point at their tip.
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Corms are solid enlarged underground stems that store nutrients in their fleshy and solid stem tissue and are surrounded by papery leaves. Corms differ from bulbs in that their centers consists of solid tissue while bulbs consist of layered leaves. Examples of plants that use corms are gladiolus and taro.
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The petals are about long, pinkish to brownish in colour with a papery texture. The stamens are arranged in 5 claw-like bundles with 20 to 25 stamens per bundle. Flowering occurs from July to September and is followed by fruits which are woody, almost cylindrical capsules, long and in diameter.
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After reaching a length of about , the caterpillars are ready to pupate. They spin a 7–8 cm long papery cocoon interwoven with desiccated leaves and attach it to a twig using a strand of silk. The adult moths emerge from the cocoon after approximately four weeks depending on environmental factors.
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The ligulate florets have a bluish purple strap ending in five teeth, 2½–2⅞ cm long, while the tube is darker. The one-seeded indehiscent fruit (called cypsela) is cylindrical with five to ten longitudal ribs, 5–6 mm long, and is crowned with papery pappus scales. The pollen is yellow.
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The distribution of P. sylveirae is wide and stretches from Brazil to Argentina. The species builds nests in trees, typically suspended from twigs. Nests are built from foraged cellulose mashed with water, which forms a papery substance used to construct walls. Cylindrical nests are constructed as a series of enclosing envelopes.
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A shrub or small tree, occasionally reaching 25 metres (80 ft) in height and a stem diameter of 45 cm (18 in). The trunk is often angled, crooked or fluted. Larger specimens may be slightly buttressed at the base. The bark is rough and brown, but with light papery vertical scales.
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Melaleuca ferruginea is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to areas near the coast of the Northern Territory in Australia. It grows to tree size, its new bark is reddish-brown and papery, and its flowers are arranged in spikes new the ends of its branches.
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The flowers are bright yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters up to eight millimetres in diameter. The spherical flower-heads are composed of 25 to 50 densley packed golden to light golden coloured flowers. The pods are flat and papery with a length of and a width of up to .
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Iris narbutii has a brown bulb with papery tunic, the bulb is approx. in diameter. It has thickened roots, which look similar to fat short pointed tubers. The thin, channelled dark green leaves emerge before the flowers, they are 5–25 mm wide (close to the base of the plant).
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L. arenarium can be distinguished from other species of sandveld pincushion by its long, inwardly curved, C-shaped styles of 3–3½ cm long, the mostly creamy, relatively large inflorescences of 5–7 cm across, the papery involucral bracts with pointed and hooked tips, and its lax arching and drooping habit.
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Paronychia chartacea is a rare species of 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 States. There are two subspecies of the plant; ssp. chartacea occurs in Central Florida, especially the Lake Wales Ridge, and ssp.
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The sandpaper oak can be a small tree of up to 40 feet (12 meters) high or a large shrub that forms thickets. The bark is light brown and papery. The twigs are gray, with short velvety hairs, becoming smooth with age. The buds are dark red-brown, sparsely covered with hairs.
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The small petals are densely covered with star- shaped hairs, occasionally with only a few scattered hairs. The flowers have a papery texture and about across on short pendant stalks. The flowers are followed by capsules containing black seeds that are shed from the plant when ripe. Flowering occurs from winter to spring.
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The flowering stalk is circular in cross section. Its flowers occur in clusters at the top of the stalk. The cluster of flowers is subtended by narrow, papery bracts that are 2.5-3.1 centimeters long and come to a point at their tips. Each flower is on a 3-6 millimeter long pedicel.
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The flowers are wide with bright yellow florets that become darker with age, the corolla about long. The florets are surrounded by papery, white involucral bracts long with jagged edges. Flowering mainly occurs from November to April and the cypselas are linear, wrinkled and dark brown with an awn up to long.
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The pitcher mouth is round and oblique. The peristome is sub-cylindrical to irregularly expanded and up to 5 mm wide. Its inner margin is lined with distinct, papery teeth up to 3 mm long. The lid or operculum is ovate and may bear a small apical appendage on its lower surface.
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Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These are green, and may be up to 10 centimetres long and about three millimetres wide. The flowers are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters up to two centimetres long and five millimetres wide. The pods are papery, about three millimetres wide.
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A typical paper wasp nest resembles a papery material, and is made of saliva and fibers from wood and plants. P. sulcifer, however, has lost the nest making ability. Instead, it relies on the nests of its host species Polistes dominula, whose nests are made of the typical paper material with many combs.
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The inflorescence is a large array of up to 45 cream- colored flowers. Each flower is between one and two centimeters long. The fruit is a bladdery legume pod which dries to a thin, almost transparent papery texture. It may exceed 4 centimeters in length and generally drops off the plant when dry.
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Melaleuca cuticularis, commonly known as the saltwater paperbark is a tree in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is native to the south-west of Western Australia. There is also a disjunct population on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is distinguished from other melaleucas by its unusual fruits and very white, papery bark.
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The flowerheads are on stalks and have a diameter of 3 to 4 cm. The inflorescence bracts are papery, the outer ones orange-brown in colour, and the inner ones yellow. It is distinguished from X. bracteatum by its narrower leaves. The species may be sunk into Xerochrysum bracteatum in a future revision.
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The framing of the woodcut image of Vasari's Lives would be called "Jacobean" in an English-speaking milieu. In it, Michelangelo's Medici tombs 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: Mannerist, in short.
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Commiphora wightii grows as a shrub or small tree, reaching a maximum height of , with thin papery bark. The branches are thorny. The leaves are simple or trifoliate, the leaflets ovate, long, broad, and irregularly toothed. It is gynodioecious, with some plants bearing bisexual and male flowers, and others with female flowers.
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This species is a branching shrub up to 2 meters tall. The toothed oval leaf blades are papery but not thin, and often have a fine coating of hairs. The flower heads grow in dense clusters in the leaf axils and at the branch tips. The pinkish purple florets have long, protruding styles.
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The leaves are alternately arranged, deciduous, and variously shaped. The brownish or reddish ochrea may be leathery to papery. The inflorescence may be a panicle or a spikelike or headlike arrangement of fascicles of flowers. The flower is white, greenish, reddish, pink or purple, with the tepals partially fused together along the bases.
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Leptospermum lanigerum has smooth, light brown, fibrous and papery bark that comes away from the trunk in long strips when removed. This bark helps provide some protection to the trunk and epicormic buds from fire, allowing the tree to potentially grow back when burnt. The bark is very similar to other Leptospermum species.
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The leaves are tiny, rounded, and densely cover the stems. The purple and pink flowers mostly appear in Spring, on the tips of the upper branches, though they remain for most of the year. What look like petals are actually the bracts. They are rigid, papery and dry and do not wilt.
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The petals are long, thin, papery and pink to brown. The stamens are arranged in 5 claw-like bundles usually with 26 to 28 stamens per bundle. Flowering occurs from August to December and is followed by fruits which are woody, almost spherical capsules, in diameter, which are often hidden in the foliage.
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The name comes from the Greek "cheiris", meaning "sleeve". Each succeeding pair of leaves differs from the previous one in form, size, and relative unity of the leaves. Those most united wither in the resting period and form a papery sheath covering the succeeding pair of leaves during dormancy in dry, hot summer.
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Hop cones contain different oils, such as lupulin, a yellowish, waxy substance, an oleoresin, that imparts flavour and aroma to beer. Lupulin contains lupulone and humulone, which possess antibiotic properties, suppressing bacterial growth favoring brewer's yeast to grow. After lupulin has been extracted in the brewing process the papery cones are discarded.
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The outer surface of the petal tube is glabrous but the inner surface is covered with glandular hairs. The 4 stamens extend beyond the end of the petal tube. Flowering occurs between August and October and the fruits which follow are almost spherical in shape, slightly compressed, have a papery covering and are long.
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The lifecycle lasts about one year.BugguidePolistes fuscatus on Animal Diversity In early spring, the new queen emerging from hibernation starts a new colony, building an umbrella-shaped nest made of a papery material and suspended from a single stalk. The queen lays eggs into individual cells. The first generation is composed of infertile female workers.
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The cylindrical flowers heads have a length of and are densely packed with bright yellow flowers. Following flowering, usually from December to February, glabrous, papery and brittle seed pods form that are straight and flat but slightly raised and constricted between seeds and are in length and and have longitudinally arranged seeds inside towards seed.
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It is a bush. Its shiny, brown, papery leaves are 16-20 by 4-5 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The mature leaves are hairless on their upper surfaces and lightly hairy on their lower surfaces. The leaves have 10-12 distinct, curved secondary veins emanating from the primary vein.
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Spectacular masses of blue-white flowers form in spring and early summer. These are in the typical Goodenia hand shape, and are approximately 2 centimetres in diameter. These flowers make it an important food plant for native insects such as butterflies. Flowers are replaced by papery capsules containing several 5mm wide disc shaped seeds.
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It is a tree reaching 18 meters in height. Its papery leaves are 16-23 by 6-8 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The leaves are hairless on their upper surface and densely hairy on their lower surfaces. The leaves have 14-18 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs.
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Papery (upper) and leafy bracts on hay rattle (Rhinanthus minor). All the "leaves" in this image are bracts. In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are often (but not always) different from foliage leaves.
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A medium- sized tree, usually around 18 to 25 metres tall and up to 20 cm in trunk diameter. The trunk is crooked and not cylindrical, the bark being smooth and orange/brown in colour with attractive green blotchy markings. Hence the common name of Python Tree. The bark sheds in thin papery flakes.
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It is a tree reaching 6 meters in height. Its branches have sparse lenticels. Its papery leaves are 12-18 by 4-6.5 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The leaves are hairless on their upper and lower surfaces and except for the midrib which is densely hairy on the lower surface.
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Each inflorescence has a zig-zag shaped axis with a length of . The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 20 to 40 bright yellow flowers. After flowering firmly papery to thinly leathery seed pods that are flat and straight to slightly curved form. The hairy brown pods are in length and wide.
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Carex brevior forms dense tufts with short-prolonged rhizomes, the clumps sometimes appearing elongated. The flowering culms are tall with 3 to 5 leaves per culm. Few vegetative culms are produced and unlike some other sedges, they are not strikingly 3-ranked. The leaf sheaths are white and papery and the ligule is long.
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Melaleuca viridiflora, commonly known as broad-leaved paperbark is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is native to woodlands, swamps and streams of monsoonal areas of northern Australia and New Guinea. It is usually a small tree with an open canopy, papery bark and spikes of cream, yellow, green or red flowers.
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This family typically has reduced perianth segments called tepals. These are usually arranged in two whorls, each containing three thin, papery tepals. They are not bright or flashy in appearance, and their color can vary from greenish to whitish, brown, purple, black, or hyaline. The three stigmas are in the center of the flowers.
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It blooms between July and October producing yellow flowers. The simple inflorescences are found in groups of 2 to 19 in an axillary raceme. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain four to eight yellow to dark yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering firmly papery to thinly leathery glabrous seed pods form.
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The petal lobes are pointed and the lower lobe is raised so that it closes the opening of the petal tube. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed within the tube. Flowering occurs mostly from July to October and is followed by fruits which are dry, woody with a papery covering, oval-shaped and long.
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Ambrosia monogyra is a shrub up to 400 cm (160 inches) tall. Leaves are very thin and thread-like, sometimes divided into thread-like lobes. The staminate flowers have translucent white corollas and the pistillate flowers are rounded, fruit- bearing structures. The fruit is an achene with a single whorl of several papery wings.
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It blooms between December and February producing inflorescences in panicles or racemes with spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of and contain 30 to 55 pale yellow to cream coloured flowers. The straight, flat seed pods that form after flowering have a length of and a width of that are firmly papery to leathery.
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The pedicelled spikelets may be highly reduced or well-developed, and are at least as long as the sessile spikelets, or shorter (2–6 mm long). The pedicel is typically 1 mm long and stout, and spikelet’s lemmas are usually empty and awnless. The glumes are papery, and ovate to pointed with a blunt apex.
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Hypericum tetrapterum is a rhizomatous, glabrous perennial plant growing up to in height. The stems are square in cross section, with conspicuous wings at the corners. The leaves are in opposite pairs, simple and entire, and have many translucent glandular dots. The thinly papery leaves are up to long and across and paler underneath.
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Melaleuca preissiana, commonly known as stout paperbark, modong or moonah, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of southwest Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with papery bark, small leaves and spikes of usually white flowers. It occurs chiefly in areas that are seasonally wet.
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Thermocol slabs made of expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads. The one on the left is from a packing box. The one on the right is used for crafts. It has a corky, papery texture and is used for stage decoration, exhibition models, and sometimes as a cheap alternative to Shola (Aeschynomene aspera) stems for artwork.
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Large clusters of delicate fragrant white flowers are borne terminally from April to June. The plants bear fruits long, with a papery flap. The seeds have a wide marginal wing all around with a terminal tuft of long white silky hairs. Because it is a poisonous plant, goats and sheep do not approach it.
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Sclerocactus papyracanthus is small cactus grows up to 8 centimeters tall by 2.5 wide. It is covered in so many spines they obscure the stems beneath. They are white, tan, or gray in color, papery in texture, and sometimes twisted or wavy in shape. The actual shape of the flower is an oval pedal.
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The fruiting cone is covered with dead brown styles and has prominent follicles which contain one or two large seeds with black papery wings separated by a woody spacer. Cones need to be heated in a fire or oven for the follicles to open. The tree drops leaves continually creating a layer of mulch.
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It is a bush reaching 3 meters in height. Its branches are smooth and gray. Its petioles are 7 millimeters long with a channel on their upper surface. Its smooth, papery, elliptical to oblong leaves are 14–20 by 5–8.5 centimeters with tips that taper to a point and wedge-shaped to pointed bases.
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Melaleuca densispicata is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is native to Queensland and New South Wales in Australia. It is a dense, woody shrub or tree with papery or scaly bark, sharp pointed leaves and dense flower spikes. It is uncommon throughout its range and was not formally described until 1984.
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The inflorescence is a raceme of several pea-like flowers each just over a centimeter wide. They may be brick-red to deep pink to brownish or red-orange in color. The fruit is a legume pod up to 3.5 centimeters long. It is inflated and bladderlike, hairless, translucent, shiny, and papery when dry.
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Allium membranaceumTraub, Hamilton Paul. 1972. Plant Life 28: 63. 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 southernmost Cascade Range, the northern Coast Ranges, and the Sierra Nevada foothills from Tulare County to Humboldt County.
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It has large elliptic leaves to 2 cm wide that are convex, which are papery to leathery in texture. The flowers are relatively larger than other forms and markedly hairy. The distinctive 'Picton form' has narrow elliptic leaves and smaller flower heads. This form resembles G. kedumbrensis and may be reclassified as a different taxon with future study.
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Melaleuca keigheryi is a shrub with papery bark growing to tall. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, flat, egg-shaped and with a sort, blunt tip. They are also unusual for the genus in that they have pinnate rather than longitudinal veins. The flowers are a shade of pink to purple and fade to white.
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Leaves are , usually oblong to elliptic- oblong, tip long-pointed, often falling off, base narrow, margin toothed, papery, hairless. Midrib is raised above, secondary nerves 5−7 pairs. Its flowers have greenish white petals and are borne in short cymes or racemes, or sometimes appear by themselves in leaf axils. The flowering takes place from to January to April.
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Chaetopterus sp. C. variopedatus builds and lives permanently in a tough, flexible, papery U-shaped tube buried in soft substrate with both ends protruding like little chimneys. The worm itself is segmented, pale coloured and up to twenty-five centimetres long. The anterior end is short and has bristle-bearing segments and a shovel-like mouth.
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There are between two and four bracteoles at the base of the flower and five separate sepals which are papery, more or less round and about long. There are five white or pink petals which are egg-shaped, thin and about long. The ten stamens and style are about long. Flowering occurs from September to December.
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Melaleuca argentea, commonly known as the silver cajuput, silver cadjeput or silver-leaved paperbark is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a common tree along river banks or around swamps in the tropics. It has papery bark and weeping foliage and has been the subject of important scientific research.
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Grewia latifolia is a small shrub endemic to Northern and Eastern Australia. Growing to a height of 2m, the species is characterised by ovate leaves with serrated margins. The leaves are discolourous with green papery upper surfaces and pale green to yellow pubescent lower surfaces. The species is deciduous, shedding leaves in response to dry conditions.
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Melaleuca decora, commonly known as the white feather honeymyrtle, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is native to eastern Australia. It is a large shrub to small tree with papery bark, lance-shaped leaves and sweet- smelling, creamy-coloured flowers in summer. It grows in near-coastal forest and swamps in New South Wales and Queensland.
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Hydnellum gracilipes is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. It was first described scientifically in 1886 by Petter Karsten, who called it Hydnum gracilipes. He transferred it to the genus Hydnellum in 1879. Fruit bodies of the fungus have a pinkish to reddish-brown colour, a delicate texture described as "felty or papery", and flimsy stipes.
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It has narrow linear leaves up to 20 centimeters long by just a few millimeters wide around the base of the stem. Smaller leaves occur higher on the stem. The inflorescence is a dense raceme of yellow flowers that bloom in June and July. The fruit is a papery, beaked capsule a centimeter long or slightly longer.
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Nephrolepis biserrata (giant swordfern, 长叶肾蕨) is a tropical fern, endemic to Florida, Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, South America, Africa, and southeast Asia. Its stipes are grayish brown and 10–50 cm × about 4 mm in size, with brownish-green, papery lamina that are 14–30 cm wide × 0.7–2 m in length.
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Monardella frutescens is a perennial herb producing several purple stems. The thin, narrow, wavy- edged leaves are 1 to 5 centimeters long and borne in clusters along the stem. The inflorescence is a head of several flowers blooming in a cup of papery purplish to straw-colored bracts. The flowers are purple to pink in color.
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HabitStem detail Ammobium alatum, commonly known as the winged everlasting, is a species of perennial herb in the daisy family Asteraceae and is both a native and an introduced species in south-eastern Australia. It has prominently winged stems, most of its leaves at the base, and heads of yellow florets surrounding by papery, white involucral bracts.
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The leaf stalk is short and closely surrounded by papery stipules on each node. The stem nodes are slightly swollen and look somewhat like "knots", thus its common name, knotweed. Flowers, with colors ranging from white to green, are inconspicuous, have no petals, and grow all along the stems. The sepals, however, are pinkish with white edges.
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The plant is tall with white coloured branches. It has long petioles and has a long leaf blade that is lanceolate, ovate, papery, and even elliptic. The female inflorescences a pendulous and cylindric raceme, that, by time it matures, reaches a diameter of by . The peduncle is long while the diameter of the bracts is only .
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It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 40–60 cm tall, with spirally arranged leaves 6–12 cm long and 4–9 cm broad. The flowers are white, with a five-lobed corolla 10–15 mm across, with an inflated basal calyx which matures into the papery orange fruit covering, 4–5 cm long and broad.
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The outer bracts are wide, narrowly inverted lance-shaped with rough and sometimes also glandular hairs. The inner bracts are wide, inverted lance-shaped, with dry papery edges. The approximately twelve, bright blue, female ray florets have a strap of about long and wide. These surround many bisexual, disc florets with a yellow corolla of about long.
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This is the main reason engineers and architects use this kind of tape in their blueprints.Drafting Tape Dick Blick Art Materials # Drafting tape is also relatively low-odour compared to other types of tape. Its odor is similar to electrical tape, but less rubbery and more papery. Many people find the odour pleasant, or at the very least, unobtrusive.
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Each flower is about long and has white petals with bright deep purple tips. The fruit is a papery legume pod around long. It is tapered at both ends, hairy in texture, and it bears a sharp beak at one end. The plant was named for the California schoolteacher and amateur botanist Clara Adele Pike Blodgett Hunt.
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There are up to 50 follicles on each spike, each long, high and wide. When new they are covered with dense grey fur, which wears off exposed areas. The obovate (egg-shaped) seed is long and fairly flattened. It is composed of the obovate seed body (containing the embryonic plant), measuring long by wide, and a papery wing.
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The outer part of the petals spread outwards to form a blue, papery, star-like pattern which fades to pale blue with age. In the centre of the star are six yellow stamens forming a tube which turns orange-red with age. The thin style extends beyond the stamens. Flowers appear from May to June or September.
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They are very flexible and have a distinctive rustling sound when the wind blows that adds to their appeal. The foliage rises from the roots on thin wiry stalks. The leaf blades are green but many color variations exist. The papery texture keeps the foliage cool to the touch and often the surface is slightly puckered or rippled.
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Physaria lepidota is a perennial herb with most of the above-ground parts covered with a silvery pubescence. Stems branch at the base but rarely above, sometimes reaching a height of 20 cm (8 inches). Flowers are yellow, born in a dense raceme. Fruits are highly inflated, up to 20 mm (0.8 inches) across with purplish papery walls.
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The outside surface is scaly and the inside of the petal lobes is hairy but the inside of the tube is filled with soft hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed within the tube. The main flowering time is from July to October and is followed by fruits which are cylinder-shaped, long and have a papery covering.
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Astragalus umbraticus is an erect, branching perennial herb growing up to 50 centimeters tall. The leaves are up to 12 centimeters long and made up of many oblong or rounded leaflets. The inflorescence is an array of 10 to 25 greenish white flowers. The fruit is a curving legume pod drying to a thick, papery texture and black color.
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The grass-like sedge is rhizomatous and perennial. It typically grows to a height of and colonises easily. The woody and shortly creeping rhizome has a diameter of and is covered in light brown papery, loose, imbricate bracts. The terete, rigid, erect, smoth, glaucous culms arise as crowded tufts along rhizome and have one to two distant nodes.
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Melaleuca spathulata is a shrub with light grey, papery bark which grows to a height of . Its branches are often twisted and mostly glabrous. The leaves are arranged alternately, well-spaced along the branchlets, long, wide, egg-shaped to spoon-shaped and tapering to a point. The leaves have a mid-vein and a number of indistinct parallel veins.
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Melaleuca tamariscina, commonly known as bush-house paperbark or tamarix honey-myrtle is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to central Queensland in Australia. It grows to the height of a small tree with small, scale-like leaves that are pressed against the branches, and has a papery bark and a weeping habit.
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Each head is up to in diameter and contains up to four individual flowers. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flowers and there are 12 to 17 stamens per bundle. The main flowering period is in early spring and is followed by the fruit which are papery or corky, barrel-shaped capsules long.
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They are generally of tufted habit and white sheathed stems with fine papery bracts. Under the right conditions, they can be in flower all year long. They propagate by spreading and forming new plantlets, called keikis, from the base of mature leaves. Several species, such as Restrepia muscifera, are very variable in size, shape and color.
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The inner surface of the petal lobes is also glabrous but the inside of the tube is filled with long hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from May to August and the fruits which follow are dry, oval-shaped, woody, long and have a papery covering with short hairs.
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Melaleuca teretifolia is a shrub which grows to a height of with light coloured papery bark and glabrous foliage. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long and wide. They are linear, almost circular in cross section, needle-like and with a sharp point on the end. The flowers are usually white but sometimes creamy white or a shade of pink.
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It is a tree reaching 15 meters in height and 15 centimeters in diameter. Its petioles are 3-8 by 2-4.5 millimeters and covered in 0.8 millimeter, gold-colored hairs. Its papery, oblong to oval leaves are 10-40 by 3-14 centimeters and come to tapering point that is up to 5 centimeters long. Its leaves.
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It is a tree reaching 8 meters in height. Its oblong, papery leaves are 19.5-25.5 by 5-7 centimeters with tips that taper to a point and wedge-shaped or pointed bases. Its leaves have smooth upper sides and lightly hairy undersides. The leaves have 13-15 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs.
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The trees are wind-pollinated, the flowers arranged in large sagged panicles usually 32 cm long like horse tails, and the fruit is a small botanical nut with rounded wings. The leaves are pinnately compound and papery. The trees are usually 17 m high and with 40 cm diameter. It is a protected species of China.
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It always has two lunate vascular bundles. The blades are either singular or in sets of two and are entirely pinnate, range from oblong-lanceolate to deltate, and from herbaceous to papery. It has linear basal sori that are paired back-to-back on the same vein. The indusium is linear and persistent, and the sporangia are brownish.
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The heads contain both female ray and bisexual and male disc florets (so-called heterogamous capitula). At the base of the head, surrounding and protecting the florets before opening, are two whorls of sepal-like bracts or scales (or phyllaries) that together make up the involucre, which is narrowly egg-shaped, about 5 mm (0.2 in) high and 4 mm (0.16 in) wide, consisting of eleven to thirteen bracts in two rows with bristles near the tip. The phyllaries are 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long, with papery margins and a row of hairs near the tip. The outer whorl of phyllaries are line-shaped, about 1 mm (0.04 in) wide with narrow papery margins, while the inner phyllaries are inverted lance-shaped, about 1½ mm (0.06 in) wide, having broad margins.
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The plant has papery bark that in sheds minni ritchi style in long strips. It regenerates from seed only. G. spinosa is similar to Grevillea pteridifolia and Grevillea eriostachya, both of which have longer, non-pungent, pliable leaf lobes. Grevillea spinosa is found around Wiluna from the Canning Stock Route to the Little Sandy Desert and as far south as Yeelirrie Station.
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Melaleuca squamophloia is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the black soil plains of south eastern Queensland in Australia. Like its close relative Melaleuca styphelioides, it is a small, erect tree with prickly leaves and spikes of cream or white flowers but its bark is hard rather than papery and the leaves have fewer veins than that species.
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The sepals are thin, papery, long and the petals are long and fall off soon as the flower matures. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower and there are13 to 22 stamens in each bundle. Flowering occurs mainly in spring and is followed by fruit which are woody, cup-shaped capsules, long, in clusters along the stem.
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Melaleuca atroviridis is a large shrub sometimes growing to a height of and has dark, flaking papery bark. Its leaves mostly point upwards, are almost circular in cross-section, long and wide. The ends of the leaves taper to a hook. The flowers are a cream or yellow and arranged in spikes containing 5 to 27 groups of flowers in threes.
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The fruit is a large edible fig, 2–3 cm in diameter, ripening from buff-green to yellow or red. They are borne in thick clusters on long branchlets or the leaf axil. Flowering and fruiting occurs year-round, peaking from July to December. The bark is green-yellow to orange and exfoliates in papery strips to reveal the yellow inner bark.
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Feldmark grass is a small and inconspicuous tufted bunchgrass, with its leaves growing to about 3 cm in height, and its flowering stems to about 7 cm. The leaves have broad, papery sheaths which are often curved or twisted spirally. The two to four spikelets are held against the flowering stem, with each containing two to four flowers.Threatened Species of NSW.
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Leaves are soft and smooth (not furry), with entire or jagged margins, 2.5–12 cm long. Cream to yellowish flowers are followed by edible yellowish fruit encapsulated in papery cover which turns straw brown and drops to the ground when the fruit is fully ripe. P. minima fruit The plant tends to have a weedy character, often found growing in disturbed sites.
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The flower of this orchid closes after pollination, forming a papery capsule. Yellow, brown, or black dust-sized seeds are produced in the capsule, which dries and splits open at maturity, releasing millions of seeds that are dispersed by wind or water. However, the seeds only germinate upon infection by mycorrhizal fungus, and so few seeds mature into full plants.
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The flower buds have thin, papery, reddish brown bracts at the base but that fall before the flower opens. The floral cup is glabrous, long and the sepals are broadly egg-shaped, about long. The petals are long and the stamens or more long. Flowering mainly in November and the fruit is a capsule wide that remains on the plant at maturity.
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The inflorescence is a raceme of up to 50 flowers which are cream colored and sometimes tinted with light purple. Each flower is long including its tubular base of sepals. The fruit is a laterally compressed, slightly inflated legume pod up to long which dries to a papery texture. The fruits hang in bunches where they develop from the inflorescence.
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Orchids in the genus Epipogium are leafless, terrestrial, mycotrophic herbs. They have a fleshy underground rhizome and the flowering stem is the only part above ground level. The flowering stem is pale-coloured, hollow, fleshy and bears a few to many drooping flowers and papery bracts. The flowers are yellowish white with violet or reddish brown markings and are short-lived.
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They are very slow-growing, semi-deciduous or deciduous, and succulent perennials with a few branches and many small, ovoid leaves along the stems. Branches are pale-barked smooth with papery cortex. These woody- stemmed desert shrubs have many short and ovoid gray-green leaves. Flowers, born on peduncles of 13–17 mm long, with some minute ovate bracts 4 mm long.
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Melaleuca fluviatilis is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to northern Queensland in Australia. It is a tree with papery bark, narrow leaves and spikes of white or creamy-coloured flowers, usually growing along streams and rivers. It is common in tropical areas and is sometimes confused with Melaleuca argentea although it lacks that species' silvery foliage.
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The flowers are white, about in diameter and usually arranged singly on short side shoots. The flower buds have thin, papery, reddish brown bracts and bracteoles at the base but that usually fall as the bud develops. The floral cup is mostly glabrous, dark-coloured, long and the sepals are hemispherical, long. The petals are long and the stamens long.
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In October to January, white fragrant flowers form in umbels, similar to the flowers of the related Grevillea. This is followed by the development of the seed pods which are narrow follicles, 5 to 10 cm long, green initially and maturing to a brown colour. Inside are many thin papery oblong shaped seeds around 12 mm long. Fruit matures from March to June.
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7 mmby 1.5–2 mm wide, white to pink and silky hairy above, green and hairless below. The male flowers have small and obtuse sepals and papery petals and are about 0.3 mm long. The female flowers have tiny sepals which form a skirt on the summit of the ovary and have no petals. It flowers from January to May.
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It resembles Rhus species in habit and foliage. It is very variable in size, sometimes a woody shrub barely 1–2 feet high, or otherwise a tree of up to 6m. During summer it produces small, creamy green flowers arranged in large sprays. The Greek generic name, meaning "durated mark", alludes to its hard, flattened seeds, which are fitted with papery wings.
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Melaleuca shiressii is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in New South Wales in Australia. (Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name Callistemon shiressii.) It is rare shrub or small tree with pale, papery bark, sharp-pointed leaves and spikes of white to pale cream bottlebrush flowers in spring and summer.
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Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107(1–3): i–xcvi, 1–3348. Eleocharis quinqueflorais a resident of wet meadows, bogs, hot springs, and other moist places. This is a rhizomatous perennial approaching a maximum height of 40 centimeters. The thin, flattened stems are surrounded by papery reddish to green leaf sheaths and topped with dark inflorescences.
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Globular yellow flowerheads appear between July and October in the species' native range. The spherical heads flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 12 to 20 bright yellow or deep yellow coloured flowers. The seed pods that form after flowering are flat and straight to slightly curved with a length of and a with of that are firmly papery to leathery.
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Bulbophyllum argyropus is an epiphytic, rarely an lithophytic herb with crowded, warty and furrowed pseudobulbs long and wide. Young pseudobulbs are covered with papery white bracts. There is a single tough, dark green leaf, long and wide on each pseudobulb. Up to five whitish or yellowish flowers long and about wide are arranged on a warty, thread-like flowering stem long.
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It is a tree reaching 30 meters in height. Its branches have sparse lenticels. Its papery leaves are 13-20 by 3.5-8 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The leaves are hairless on their upper surface and densely hairy on their lower surfaces. The leaves have 10-16 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs.
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These semi-deciduous plants have greyish green, opposite, palmately compounded leaves and close-grained, light-colored wood good for furniture. In early spring, the plants bear showy clusters of bright yellow, funnel-shaped flowers 2–2.5 cm wide at branch ends. Pods are 25–50 cm long, straight, pendulous and brown with thin, flat seeds inside. The seeds have papery wings.
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This tree grows up to 12 meters tall. Leathery, pointed, ovate leaves up to 13 centimeters long are borne in clusters along the branches. The flower has 10 to 14 papery to somewhat fleshy red tepals of varying lengths, up to 1.2 centimeters. The fruit is a star- shaped whorl of 12 to 14 follicles each up to 2 centimeters long.
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It is a tree reaching 8 meters in height. Its papery, elliptical to oblong leaves are 17-25 by 5-7.5 centimeters, have tapering tips and pointed bases. The lower surfaces of the leaves have sparse hairs and their upper surfaces are matt to glossy and mostly hairless. The leaves have 13-16 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs.
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It is a bush reaching 1 to 2 meters in height. Its dark, young branches initially have fine red hairs, but become hairless when mature. Its papery, hairless, oblong to elliptical leaves are 10.5-23.5 by 3.5-8.5 centimeters with tips that taper to a point. Its leaves have 7-9 pairs of secondary veins that emanate from their midribs.
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By attacking mature passion fruit trees, these lesions cause intense defoliation and fruit rot. Many leaves die due to the foliar lesions and the skin of fruits becomes papery. Under warm and humid conditions, this disease can worsen, causing red and orange spores eventually killing the plant. Infection is carried out through the residues of the passion flower, infected seeds, seedlings, and cuttings.
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It forms large pointed pods filled with papery seeds, and is easy to germinate, having two-lobed dicotyledons. A capsule fruit is formed that is 4 to 6 centimeters long and has a diameter of about 1 to 2 centimeters. The flat seeds are almost completely surrounded by a membranous wing and have a diameter of 10 to 15 millimeters.
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The heads are up to in diameter and contain up to five individual flowers. The flower buds are surrounded by brown, papery bracts which fall off as the flowers open. The petals are long and fall off as the flowers age. The stamens are arranged in bundles of five around the flower, usually with 6 to 17 stamens in each bundle.
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Melaleuca squarrosa is a shrub, sometimes a small tree growing to high, with white or grey papery bark. Its leaves are arranged in alternating pairs (decussate) so that its leaves are in four rows along the stems. They are long, wide, flat and linear to narrow egg-shaped tapering to a point. They have between 5 and 7 distinct veins.
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The fabric can be folded together at full width, however this is not done as often as it is more difficult. The fabric is then run through rollers that polish the surface and make the fabric smoother and more lustrous. High temperatures and pressure are used as well. Fabrics that go through the calendering process feel thin, glossy and papery.
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It attacks white, black, Norway, and Colorado blue spruces. The larvae at first prefer new foliage, but after becoming about half-grown, old needles are included in their diet too. Young plantations become susceptible a few growing seasons after establishment. The insect overwinters underground as a larva in a dark-brown papery cocoon encrusted with soil (Rose and Lindquist 1985).
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Schizolaena turkii grows as a shrub or tree up to tall with a trunk diameter of up to . Its papery leaves are elliptic to ovate in shape and measure up to long. The inflorescences are small and bear up to 15 flowers, each with three sepals and five pink petals. The roundish fruits are yellow and measure up to in diameter.
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The outside of the tube and the petal lobes are almost glabrous but the inside of the tube is filled with woolly hairs. The petal lobes are rounded but have a small point in their centres. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed within the tube. The fruits are oval to cone-shaped, long and are woody with a papery covering.
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The slender erect perennial shrub typically grows to a height of and has angular branchlets with silver scales present on young growth. The leaves are alternate, a papery silvery pale green colour on short petioles. The leaf blade is a narrow elliptic shape with a length of and a width of . The leaves release a strong mango smell when crushed.
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Limonium sinuatum, commonly known as wavyleaf sea lavender, statice, sea lavender, notch leaf marsh rosemary, sea pink, is a Mediterranean plant species in the family Plumbaginaceae known for its papery flowers that can be used in dried arrangements. It is common to find it in Southern Spain, North Africa, Canary Islands, Israel and in Turkey. It usually grows up in sandy grounds.
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This species is indigenous to the far western corner of the Little Karoo region, in the Western Cape of South Africa. It occurs around Montagu, Barrydale, and as far as Ladismith in the east. They grow primarily in the winter, when rainfall swell them. After flowering, they go into dormancy through the summer, when they are covered in a dry papery sheath.
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Thaumatococcus daniellii grows three to four meters in height, and has large, papery leaves up to 46 centimeters long. It bears pale purple flowers and a soft fruit containing a few shiny black seeds. The fruit is covered in a fleshy red aril, which is the part that contains thaumatin. In its native range, the plant has a number of uses besides flavoring.
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A mid-sized tree up to 30 metre in height and a stem diameter of 85 centimetre. The trunk can be straight and tall, somewhat fluted or buttressed at the base. Papery brown or grey bark, with vertical cracks and fissures on larger trees. Small branches are brown, though at the end they become white or silvery, as do new shoots.
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It then has a brown papery tip. The flowers come in a range of reddish-purple shades, from blue to blue-purple, red-violet, with a rare white variants. The flowers are 6–8 cm in diameter. It has two pairs of petals, three large sepals (outer petals), known as the 'falls' and three inner, smaller petals (or tepals, known as the 'standards').
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The distinctive fruits develop and dwarf the rest of the plant under an array of saillike pod structures, each on a pedicel. The fruits are each 2 to 3 centimeters tall, elliptic, and papery to leathery across a span between stiff septa. They are white, often with areas of purple coloration, or brown. Within the folds of the fruit are several seeds.
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The outer surface is hairy but the inner surface of the petal lobes is glabrous and the inside of the tube is filled with woolly hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from June to July and is followed by fruits which are oval- shaped with a pointed end and about long with a papery covering.
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Males finish development a few days earlier than females in larval and pupal stages because they are smaller. Pupae are dark brown with a transparent window area between compound eye covers. Cocoons are irregular in shape and have a papery texture. They are light brown with a glossy sheen, and have a pre-formed exit opening at the anterior end.
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Eucalyptus chartaboma was first formally described in 2000 by Dean Nicolle from a specimen collected north of Mount Garnet and the description was published in the journal Nuytsia. The specific epithet (chartaboma) is derived from the Ancient Greek words charte meaning "leaf of paper" and bomos meaning "base", "stand" or "altar", referring to papery bark on the trunk of this eucalypt.
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They then spread it around with their mandibles and legs, and it dries into a papery structure. The workers guard the nest and feed on nectar, tree sap and fruit pulp (particularly that of apples). They also prey on insects and other arthropods, chewing them up and feeding them to the larvae. They have been known to scavenge raw meat.
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Boronia molloyae is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has hairy branches. The leaves are pinnate with mostly between three and seven narrow elliptic leaflets long. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a thin pedicel long and with a top- shaped tip. The four sepals are more or less round, papery, hairy and about long.
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Melaleuca thyoides, commonly known as salt lake honey-myrtle is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with grey, papery or fibrous bark and very small, overlapping leaves on thin branchlets. It is a salt tolerant species often found on the edges of salt lakes.
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Corymborkis veratrifolia, commonly known as the white cinnamon orchid is a plant in the orchid family and is native to areas from tropical and subtropical Asia to Australia and the Pacific Islands. It is an evergreen, terrestrial orchid with a thin, upright stem, papery, pleated leaves and a short flowering stems with up to sixty crowded, short-lived green and white flowers.
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An erect shrub, up to three meters high, Alyogyne hakeifolia is densely covered in fine leaves. The species is known for its rapid growth, especially under favorable conditions. Flowering begins between May and August in its native habitat, and continues until February. The flowers are variously blue, purple, or various shades of creamy yellow; they become deeply colored and papery when spent.
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Melaleuca cajuputi, commonly known as cajuput or white samet is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is widespread in Australia, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and the Torres Strait islands. It is a medium to tall tree with papery bark, silvery new growth and white or greenish flower spikes. It has important uses as a source of cajuput oil.
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Melaleuca citrolens is a tree growing up to tall with grey or white papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide and linear to narrow oval in shape. The flowers are white to cream coloured, in heads up to in diameter with the heads containing one to 15 individual flowers. The petals are long and fall of as the flower opens.
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The petal tube and its lobes are glabrous apart from some hairs on the lowest lobe and inside the tube. The 4 stamens extend beyond the end of the petal tube and are the most conspicuous part of the flowers. Flowering mainly occurs between March and December and is followed by fruits which are dry, almost spherical, long with a grey, papery covering.
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This is the quantity of bark required to make the tan mixture. The liquid volume is considerably more than this. The tanbark used in Russia was the poplar willow Salix arenaria or in Siberia the more readily available bast (dark inner bark, beneath the papery bark) of the birch tree; it was also reported that spruce bark would be equally effective.
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Production of 'degot' , the birch oil or birch tar for leathermaking was a specialist craft and practised by only a few villages that then supplied other leathermaking sites. It was a partial pyrolysis and distillation process, similar to the making of turpentine. The papery birch bark was peeled from standing trees and collected. Trees were carefully chosen, older trees being favoured.
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At the base of each flower there are brown, papery, overlapping bracts which fall off as the flowers develop. The stamens are arranged in 5 bundles around the flower, each bundle containing 3 to 6 stamens. Flowering occurs from August to September but sometimes continues to December. The fruit are woody capsules long with the sepals remaining as rounded teeth.
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Ulmaceae, in Wu, Z. & Raven, P. (eds) Flora of China, Vol. 5 (Ulmaceae through Basellaceae). Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, USA. Fu sank Ulmus taihangshanensis S.Y.Wang as a synonym for this variety, but U. taihangshanensis, as described from Henan, differs in having more pubescent twigs which never develop corky wings, and thinner leaves (papery rather than leathery). .
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Phacelia bolanderi is a species of flowering plant known by several common names, including Bolander's phacelia, Bolander's scorpionweed, blue-flowered grape-leaf, and caterpillar flower. The plant is native to Oregon and coastal northern California. It was named for the California botanist Henry Nicholas Bolander. It bears attractive papery inch-wide purple, lavender, or blue flowers and strongly toothed leaves which resemble those of grape.
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The blade is coriaceous, leathery, and medium green. It has a midrib that is above pale green and shiny and beneath pale and glaucous, smooth without hairs. The pale green midrib and dark green reticulate venation is visible when the blade is fresh. When dried, the blade is papery, ovate to obovate or narrowly so, and 1.4 to 3 times as long as it is wide.
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Hemichroa pentandra, commonly known as trailing hemichroa, trailing saltstar or trailing jointweed, is a prostrate perennial herb in the amaranth family. It is endemic to Australia. A succulent halophyte, it grows to about 10 cm in height and 30 cm wide. It has tiny, inconspicuous white flowers, surrounded by papery bracts, which grow in the angle between the stem and the 12 mm long leaves.
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Changeable moire is a term for fabric with a warp of one color and a weft of another, which gives different effects in different lights. Moire fabric is more delicate than fabric of the same type that has not gone through the calendering process. Also, contact with water removes the watermark and causes staining. Moire feels thin, glossy and papery due to the calendering process.
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The Fernie Formation is composed primarily of brown and dark gray to black shales that range from massive with conchoidal fracture to laminated and highly fractured or papery. Phosphatic sandstone and limestone, including cherty limestone, occur locally in the lower parts of the formation; siltstone, sandstone, coquinas and oolitic limestone interbeds can occur in the center; glauconitic sandstone and siltstone can be present in the upper parts.
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It is a tree reaching 4 to 15 meters in height. Its dull papery leaves are 10-19 by 3-6 centimeters and come to a point at their tips. The leaves are hairless on their upper and lower surfaces, but can have small warty bumps. The leaves have 10-15 distinct, straight secondary veins emanating from the primary vein. Its petioles are 2-7 millimeters long.
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Scabiosa stellata is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name starflower pincushions. (Formerly it had been placed in the teasel family.) It is native to southwestern Europe and North Africa, and it is known widely as an ornamental plant. The inflorescence is a dense spherical cluster of flowers that yield showy fruits with fan-like funnel- shaped papery bracts.
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B. subser. Sphaerocarpae was formally defined as containing those taxa with "seeds with transversely aligned cells on the inner face on the inner face of the wing,... and old styles that curl loosely around the infructescence." In addition, all species except B. grossa have a papery interseminal plate. The epithet Sphaerocarpae is taken from the specific epithet of the type species, B. sphaerocarpa (Fox Banksia).
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Melaleuca pyramidalis is a shrub growing to tall with compact, dark grey, papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, flat, elliptical in shape with a short stalk. The veins are pinnate and there are only a few scattered, indistinct oil glands. The flowers are red to pink, arranged in spikes up to in diameter with 20 to 50 individual flowers.
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Dudleya pulverulenta grows a rosette of wide, flat fleshy leaves of pale green which age to a pinkish papery texture. It produces one to many tall erect stems which are similar in color. The epidermis of the plant is covered with a dense coating of chalky, powdery "wax". Its pale green or white nodding or erect inflorescences bear many pinkish flowers, each on a long pedicel.
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Persoonia longifolia is an erect shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of , usually with a single main trunk. It has flaky-papery bark, brown or greyish on the surface and reddish purple below. Young branchlets are covered with brown to rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide.
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The species is bisexual with closed leaf-sheaths and have short rhizomes with culms that are tall. It panicle is long and is linear. Its rachis and branches are scabrous while the ligule is long and is membranous. The glumes are lanceolate, papery and membranous on borders, with difference in size; Lower glume is long by wide while the upper one is long by wide.
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Hypericum assamicum is an erect, perennial or suffruticose (woody at the base) herb tall. The stems are terete with internodes , shorter than or exceeding the leaves. The oblong to oblanceolate leaves are perfoliate, in pairs, thinly papery, up to long and broad, with glaucous undersides and obtuse to rounded tips. The margin of the leaf is entire, or rarely glandular-crenate, with dense, black glands.
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Soredia and isidia may be seen on the ridges and margins in full magnification. It is a foliose lichen and its leaf-like thallus is green, leathery and lobed with a pattern of ridges and depressions on the upper surface. Bright green under moist conditions, it becomes brownish and papery when dry. This species often has a fine layers of hairs, a tomentum, on its lower surface.
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The seed pods that form after flowering are straight and reasonably flat except for around the seeds where they are slightly raised and constricted. The firmly papery glabrous pods are in length and wide and either smooth or a little wrinkled. The seeds inside are arranged longitudinally. The black to brown coloured seeds have an oblong elliptic shape with a length of about with an open aureole.
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It is a tree reaching 23 meters in height. Its papery to membranous, elliptical leaves are 14-29 by 3.5-11.4 centimeter, have short tapering tips and bases that come to a point where they meet the petioles. The dull upper surfaces of the leaves are hairless except the midribs which have fine hairs. The shiny lower surfaces are hairless except the midribs which have fine hairs.
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This results in large clusters of stem amassing and create dense mats along the surface. The plant flowers from December to April and usually grows around in diameter and tend to be papery and ball-shaped. The weed's intricate root system can either allow them to hang free in the water to absorb nutrients or directly penetrate the soil/sediment and pull their nutrients from below.
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Bulbophyllum windsorense, commonly known as the thread-tipped rope orchid, is a species of epiphytic orchid that has small pseudobulbs partly hidden by brown, papery bracts. Each pseudobulb has a single fleshy, dark green, grooved leaf and one or two cream-coloured or greenish flowers. It mainly grows near the breezy tops of trees, especially Callitris macleayana trees and is endemic to tropical North Queensland.
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Bulbophyllum radicans is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb that has hanging stems long with roots near the base. The stems are covered with brown papery bracts that partially cover the pseudobulbs that are long and wide. A single flower long and is borne on a thread-like flowering stem long. The flower is pink, cream-coloured or yellow flower with red or purplish stripes.
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The outer surface of the petal tube and lobes are usually glabrous, often sticky while the inside is covered with short hairs. The four stamens extend beyond the end of the tube. Flowering occurs from February to December, although in the Esperance region mostly between July and November. The fruits are dry, cylinder-shaped to almost spherical, glabrous with a papery covering and are long.
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The species is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants; occasionally there are flowers with both male and female parts functional. The fruit is a papery, three-sided capsule about half a centimeter long and wide. This plant grows in dry habitat types, such as desert grasslands, pinyon-juniper woodlands, and chaparral. It is a dominant plant species in a number of ecosystems.
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Another cartouche figures prominently in the 16th-century title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery . The engraved trade card of the London clockmaker Percy Webster shows a vignette of the shop in a scrolling cartouche frame of Rococo design that is composed entirely of scrolling devices.
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A large mound may house up to a million individual termites. Each is the nest of a colony of Amitermes meridionalis and houses the queen, king, reproductives, soldiers and workers. The outer surface of the mound is hard and durable whereas the material separating the chambers and galleries inside is more papery. The soldiers are long and their curved mandibles bear a single in-turned tooth.
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Melaleuca nesophila is a large shrub or small tree growing to in height by in width. It has greyish- white, papery bark and a dense crown which often reaches to the ground. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, flat, elliptic to narrow egg- shaped with rounded ends. The lavender to rose pink "pom-pom" flowers appear over a long period from spring to mid-summer.
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Hakonechloa macra is a small, mostly shade-loving, clump-forming bunchgrass, slowly spreading in circumference. The stalks cascade in a graceful rounded fountain shape somewhat reminiscent of Pennisetum (fountain grass) but with the actual leaves resembling Chasmanthium. The species tends to be between 45 cm and 60 cm (18" to 24") in height. The leaves are thin and papery and resemble many forms of bamboo.
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The easternmost of all Conophytum species, C. truncatum is indigenous to the Little Karoo region, and its surrounds, in the southern Cape of South Africa. It ranges from near Montagu in the west, as far east as the Springbokvlakte. They grow primarily in the winter, when rainfall swell them. After flowering, they go into dormancy through the summer, when they are covered in a dry papery sheath.
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Astragalus shevockii is a slender perennial herb producing thin, hard, hairy stems up to 35 centimeters long. The leaves are a few centimeters in length and are made up of several widely spaced oval-shaped leaflets. The inflorescence is an open cluster of up to 13 cream-colored flowers each about a centimeter long. The fruit is a hairy, papery legume pod 1 to 3 centimeters long.
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It was then the second oldest Gothic Revival church in the city of Baton Rouge. Its NRHP nomination describes: "Because of its side tower and substantial proportions, it is closer in feeling to the ecclesiastical, mid-century Gothic Revival style than the older church, St. Joseph's, whose massing is symmetrical and whose proportions are thin and papery. The church is also a local landmark." with photo With .
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Photograph of Mischogyne elliotiana fruit It is a bush reaching 4-7 meters in height. Its elliptical leaves are 8-17 by 4-8 centimeters. Its hairless leaves are wedge shaped at their point of attachment and come to a long tapering point at their tips. The leaves have a papery to leathery texture and are glossy green on their upper side and lighter on their underside.
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Namophila urotepala grows from an underground bulb, which has a dark brown papery tunic. The bulb produces only two somewhat succulent leaves which spread out on the ground on either side. The flowers are produced in a several-flowered raceme borne on a very short stem so that the inflorescence is at ground level. At the top of the inflorescence is a tuft of bracts.
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Melica is a genus of perennial grasses known generally as melic or melic grass. They are found in most temperate regions of the world.Herbarium.usu.edu: Genus Melica treatment Melica uniflora spikelet Corm of Melica spectabilis, purple oniongrass Melica altissima 'Atropurpurea' cultivar Melica picta in situ Melic grasses are clumping to short-rhizomatous grasses. They have flowering culms up to tall bearing spikelets of papery flowers.
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The heads are globular with 35–53 flowers, and golden. Flowers are 5-merous and have free sepals. The pods are narrow with the seeds raising the pods prominently and they are straight and 42–110 mm long by 7–13 mm wide and are papery and thin. The seeds are without arils and 6–7.5 mm long, and a dull, dark brown or black.
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Bulbophyllum globuliforme is an epiphytic herb with pale green, more or less spherical pseudobulbs that are in diameter. Each pseudobulb has a single papery, scale-like leaf long. A single cream-coloured flower about long and wide is borne on a thread-like flowering stem long. The sepals and petals spread widely, the sepals about long and wide, the petals about long and wide.
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Leptospermum micromyrtus is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . It has papery bark tending to rough and peeling in flakes. The leaves are egg-shaped to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes almost round, mostly long and wide on a short petiole. The flowers are white, wide and usually arranged singly, sometimes in pairs on a short side shoot.
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The involucre is up to 1 cm (0.7 in) in diameter and consists of three to four rows of bracts. These bracts are overlapping, densely glandular, and have a papery margin in particular above the middle. Around ten female ray florets have violet ligules of about long and wide. They encircle numerous bisexual yellow disc florets, with a yellow, often tinged reddish brown, corolla of about long.
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These bracts overlap, are wide, are covered in glandular and bristly hairs, and have a papery fringe. The outer bracts are about and the inner about long. The fifteen or so female ray florets have blue-violet ligules of about long and wide. They encircle numerous bisexual disc florets, with a yellow corolla of about high, that is sometimes washed red at the five triangular free lobes.
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Covered with a fine grey fur, they are elliptical in shape and measure in length, and in width. The obovate (egg-shaped) seed is long and fairly flattened. It is composed of the triangular seed body (containing the embryonic plant), measuring long by wide, and a papery wing. One side, designated the outer surface, is deeply pitted and the other is brown and smooth.
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Leptospermum trinervium, commonly known as flaky-barked tea-tree, slender tea- tree or paperbark tree, is a species of shrub or small tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has papery bark that is shed in thin, flaking layers, narrow elliptic to broadly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower at the base, white flowers and silky-hairy fruit that falls from the plant when mature.
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The outer surface of the petal tube and lobes is hairy but the inner surface of the lobes is glabrous and the inside of the tube is filled with woolly hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from June to September and the fruits which follow are dry, oval- shaped, woody, hairy and long with a papery covering.
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Old flower spikes develop into "cones" that consist of up to thirty follicles that develop from the flowers that were pollinated. Old withered flower parts remain on the cones, giving them a hairy appearance. Each follicle is oval in shape, wrinkled in texture, covered with fine hair and long, thick, and wide. The obovate seed is long, fairly flattened, has a papery wing and weighs around .
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Saururus chinensis, commonly known as Asian lizard's tail, is an herb that grows in low, damp places to more than 1 meter high, endemic to China, India, Japan (including the Ryukyu Islands), Korea, Philippines, and Vietnam. Its leaves are green, papery, ribbed, densely glandular, and ovate to ovate- lanceolate, and (4-)10-20 × (2-)5-10 cm in size. Each flower spike resembles a lizard's tail.
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The conical pseudobulbs are high and heteroblastic (derived from a single internode). The oblong to narrowly lanceolate leaves are long by wide, taper to a point, and have three to five primary longitudinal veins. There is a single papery leaf on each pseudobulb with a long petiole with a joint about below the leaf blade. Inflorescences are long, of which of that length is the peduncle.
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It is a small tree reaching 9 meters in height. Its petioles are 7.5-11 by 1.9-2.7 millimeters and have sparse hairs. Its elliptical leaves have a papery texture and are 23-32 by 5.5-8.5 centimeters with bases and tips that taper to a point. The leaves are hairless on their upper side and have sparse hairs on their underside, particularly on the midrib.
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The petal tube is pale lilac-coloured to white and hairy on the outside. The inside surface of the petal lobes is mostly glabrous but the inside of the petal tube is filled with long, soft hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs in September and the fruits which follow are oval-shaped, about long and have a hairy, papery covering.
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Melaleuca calycina grows to a height of about or less and has rough, corky bark. The leaves are long and wide, arranged in alternating opposite pairs (decussate). The flowers are white or cream-coloured and occur singly or in small groups, sometimes at the ends of branches and sometimes in the leaf axils. At the base of each flower there are brown, papery, overlapping bracts.
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The flowers are produced in drooping terminal panicles 5–10 cm long, with 5–15 flowers on each panicle; the individual flowers are about 1 cm long, with the five sepals and petals similar in size and in their white or pale pink colour. The fruit is an inflated papery two- or three-lobed capsule 3–10 cm long, containing a few small nut-like seeds.
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The genus is typified by elongate, spindle-shaped, usually pendulous pseudobulbs of several internodes, which may be fat or slender, depending on the species. The leaves tend to be quite soft and papery, strongly ribbed and long. The leaves can take a good deal more light than is apparent from their thickness. This genus also tends to be partially deciduous, though leaves are often retained for two years.
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Melaleuca dealbata, commonly known as karnbor or blue paperbark, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is native to tropical areas in northern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia. It is a medium to large leafy tree, growing in wet areas such as on the edges of coastal lagoons. It has papery bark, relatively large, blue-green leaves and spikes of cream-coloured flowers over a long period.
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Melaleuca adnata is an erect to spreading shrub up to tall with papery or fibrous bark. Its leaves are arranged in alternating pairs at right angles to the pairs above and below so that there are four rows of leaves along the stems. The leaves are elliptic to narrow egg-shaped, long, wide and crescent-shaped in cross-section.The petioles are attached the underside of the leaves (peltate).
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Cycnogeton alcockiae, also known as southern water-ribbons, Alcock's water- ribbons or dwarf water-ribbons, is a plant in the arrowgrass family native to south-eastern Australia, where it has been recorded from South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. It is found in freshwater and brackish wetland communities, in pools, swamps and the margins of streams, where it grows to about 20 cm in height. The fruit is a papery capsule.Understorey Network.
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Melaleuca nanophylla is a shrub or small tree growing to about high with glabrous foliage and rough or papery bark. The leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, broad oval in shape with a short, blunt point. The flowers are white to creamy yellow and are arranged in small heads between the leaves. The heads are up to in diameter and contain between 1 and 9 groups of flowers, usually in threes.
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The intercellular hyphae become established in the apical meristem and are maintained systemically within the plant. After initial infection, hyphae are sparse in plants. The fungus proliferates in the spikes when ovaries begin to form. Sporulation occurs in endosperm tissue until the entire kernel is converted into a sorus consisting of a dark brown to black mass of teliospores covered by a modified periderm, which is thin and papery.
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The seed is 1.5–2 cm long. Its fleshy outer layer (the sarcotesta) is light yellow-brown, soft, and fruit- like. It is attractive in appearance, but contains butyric acid (also known as butanoic acid) and smells like rancid butter or vomit when fallen. Beneath the sarcotesta is the hard sclerotesta (the "shell" of the seed) and a papery endotesta, with the nucellus surrounding the female gametophyte at the center.
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Melaleuca xerophila is a large shrub or small spreading tree which grows to a height of and has fibrous or papery bark. The leaves are alternately or spirally arranged, narrow elliptic in shape, long and wide. The flowers are white or cream-coloured and are arranged in heads near the ends of the branches, each head usually consisting of one to nine individual flowers. The base of the flower is long.
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The thallus of L. scrobiculata has broad, concave and rounded lobes, rather wider than in Lobaria pulmonaria. The upper surface has large shallow depressions (scrobiculate, hence the specific name). Blue-grey soredia, the asexual reproductive bodies, are always present along ridges and on the margins. The thallus has a blue-grey colour and pliable texture when hydrated but assumes a light grey or yellow-grey colour and papery texture when dehydrated.
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Paper wasps (Polistes major) at the P.B. County SWA Greenway Trail Paper wasps are vespid wasps that gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct nests made of gray or brown papery material. Some types of paper wasps are also sometimes called umbrella wasps, due to the distinctive design of their nests."Paper Wasp" Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006.
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The fruit is a small legume pod containing one seed. Though it often co-occurs with its congener Kummerowia striata, it is easily identified by large papery stipules which are especially visible for young leaves. This plant was introduced to the United States when it was intentionally planted in Arlington, Virginia, by the USDA in 1919. This species and Japanese clover were used to revegetate abandoned coal mine sites.
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Melaleuca foliolosa is a tree growing up to tall with white or greyish papery bark and a bushy crown. Its leaves are arranged in alternating pairs (decussate) and are long and wide. They are almost triangular in shape and pressed against the stem so that they almost overlap. The flowers are cream to greenish white and arranged in short spikes or almost spherical heads in the upper leaf axils.
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Allium oleraceum grows to a height of about . The underground bulb is up to in diameter. The main stem is usually rounded, but is occasionally flattened, and bears two to four leaves and a terminal inflorescence composed of a number of small, stalked, pinkish-brown flowers and sometimes a few bulblets. The papery bracts have long points which often much overtop the flowers, the stamens of which do not protrude.
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Correa lawrenceana var. lawrenceana is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has papery, oblong leaves long, wide and sometimes covered with rust-coloured hairs on the lower surface. Specimens in the north-east of the state have narrow leaves, while those from the south and west have wider leaves with hairy undersides. The flowers are borne singly on the ends of branchlets on a stalk about long.
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The phyllaries are unequal in size. The outer whorl consists of few phyllaries of about 2½ mm (0.1 in) wide and ½ mm (0.02 in) wide, while the inner phyllaries are in two whorls, about 4½ mm (0.18 in) long and ½–1 mm (0.02–0.04 in) wide, with rough glandular hairs or hairless, with papery margins. Each head consists of approximately sixteen white, female ray florets encircling many yellow, bisexual disc florets.
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The aerial flower heads are congested in the center of the leaf rosette, more or less arranged as a low cauliflower. Groups of florets are either functionally male or functionally female. The involucral bracts are overlapping in several series, papery, whitish and have an pointy tip. The aerial flower heads have some semblance to a hedgehog and the hard, dry plants hurt the naked foot if stepped upon.
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Melaleuca salicina, commonly known as willow bottlebrush, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name Callistemon salignus, a name that is accepted by the Australian Plant Census. It is a shrub or small tree with soft foliage, pink new growth, white papery bark and spikes of usually white or creamy bottlebrush flowers in spring.
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In the majority of the species the involucral bracts have tough rubbery consistency and are usually softly hairy, overlapping and tightly pressed against the flower head. L. parile, L. tottum and L. vestitum on the other hand have thin, papery bracts. The common base of the flowers that jointly constitute a single flowerhead (called receptacle) varies considerably among species. It may be flat, globe- shaped, pointy conical or blunt cylindric.
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The shrub blooms between August and November and produces simple inflorescences that occur singly or in pairs in the axils. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 30 to 45 bright yellow or pale yellow to white coloured flowers. After flowering straight and flat, papery seed pods form that are in length and . The smooth and glabrous pods have a few fine lateral veins near the margins.
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Pteraster militaris is a robust starfish with a wide disc, a large central pore and five short, wrinkled, triangular arms. The aboral (upper) surface is dotted with papulae, each topped with four short spines and above this is a papery covering giving the starfish an inflated, bulky appearance. It grows to a diameter of and is usually orange, pale yellow or white, sometimes with red tips to its arms.
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The papery to slightly coriaceous phyllodes have two to four prominent main nerves that are concurrent with each other. It blooms from May to August producing yellow flowers. The cylindrical flower-spikes are in length and packed with golden coloured flowers. After flowering densely haired seed pods form that are tightly coiled in masses with a length of around and a width of with longitudinally arranged seeds inside.
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German naturalist and Government Botanist for Victoria Ferdinand von Mueller originally described Atractocarpus chartaceus in 1860 as Gardenia chartacea, before giving it the name Randia chartacea in 1875 by which it was known for many years. The specific epithet chartacea refers to its thin and papery leaves. Then in 1999, the genus was revised by botanists Christopher Puttock and Christopher Quinn and the Narrow-leaved Gardenia gained its current binomial name.
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Rhadinothamnus rudis is a shrub to high with terete, angular branchlets. The leaves are variable they may be wide or narrowly notched at the apex or almost circular, long, smooth edges, papery to leathery texture, smooth, on a short petiole. The white flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on an angular pedicel long, wide and the underside covered with small, silvery scales. The stamens marginally shorter than the petals.
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Bulbophyllum minutissimum is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb with crowded, reddish or green, flattened spherical pseudobulbs that are in diameter. The pseudobulbs contain stomata on their inner surface, which minimizes surface area and the loss of water by transpiration. Each pseudobulb has a single linear to lance-shaped, papery, scale-like leaf about long. A single flower about long and wide is borne on a thread-like flowering stem about long.
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Austrosteenisia blackii is a leguminous liana of the rainforests and dry rainforests of tropical and sub-tropical eastern Australia. Also known commonly as the blood vine for the dark red sap that exudes from cut stems. Blooms resemble dark red peas and produce papery fruit up to 12 cm long with kidney-shaped seeds. It is a vigorous creeper and can be used as ground cover in gardening.
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Astragalus gilmanii is a small, low-lying annual or perennial herb forming clumps of hairy stems up to 25 centimeters long. The leaves are up to about 7 centimeters long and are made up of several fuzzy, purple- margined green leaflets. The inflorescence bears 4 to 9 bright pinkish purple flowers each about 7 millimeters in length. The fruit is an inflated papery legume around 2 centimeters long.
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Astragalus deanei is mostly hairless perennial herb growing erect to heights between 30 and 60 centimeters. The leaves are up to 18 centimeters long and are made up of oval- shaped leaflets with prominent midribs. The open inflorescence holds up to 25 whitish flowers, each 1 to 1.5 centimeters long. The fruit is an inflated legume pod 1.5 to 3 centimeters long which dries to a thin, papery texture.
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Calectasia gracilis is an undershrub with stilt roots but without a rhizome. It grows to a height of with a few short side branches. The leaves are glabrous, long and about with a short, sharp point on the end. The base of the petals (strictly tepals) forms a tube long with lobes long and wide forming a blue, papery star-like pattern which fades to pale blue with age.
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Melaleuca leucadendra is a large tree, usually less than, but sometimes more than tall. Its thick bark is papery, usually white but also pinkish or cream and it has weeping branches. Its leaves and young branches are covered with fine, short, white hairs when young but become glabrous as they mature. The leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, flat, narrow egg-shaped or lance-shaped and tapering to a point.
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Hypericum sampsonii is a perennial herb tall with perfoliate leaves. The thick, papery leaves are lanceolate to oblanceolate, long and across, with pale undersides and dense pale or black glandular dots. The flat-topped flowerhead has between 20 and 40 flowers, each flower in diameter with 5 bright yellow petals. Each petal is long and across with pale glandular streaks or dots on the surface and black glands along the edges.
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Astragalus subvestitus is small, hairy, mat-forming perennial herb producing stems no longer than 8 centimeters. The leaves are a few centimeters long and made up of several hairy oval-shaped leaflets. The small inflorescence holds a few purple-tinged white flowers each just over a centimeter in length. The fruit is a papery legume pod covered in short, curly white hairs and bearing a triangular beak at the tip.
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Hew, C.S., and J.W.H. Yong. 2004. The Physiology of Tropical Orchids in Relation to the Industry. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. pp. 13-15. The modified sheath leaves that appear at the base of a pseudobulb and often enfold all or part of it are usually dry and papery, though in some orchids the sheaths bear leaf blades and the leaves at the pseudobulb's apex are reduced to scales.
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One critic wrote that the areas of the floor and most of the cupboard behind her seem unfinished and "much too narrow and papery in effect". A number of objects placed on the cupboard are now barely visible save for their bases.These objects are often cut off in reproduction. The object on the right seated on legs alongside a box is likely a small pitcher, possibly a reliquary.
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The sparsely hairy to glabrous phyllodes have ciliate margins with three main longitudinal veins. The pale yellow globular flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 10 to 25 flowers and appear singly or in pairs in the leaf axils between July and October in the species' native range. The papery, straight, flat seed pods are slightly raised over seeds with a length of and a width of .
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The racemes are few-flowered, short, erect, crowded in axils of upper leaves so as to form a large terminal inflorescence stamens barren; the ovary is superior, unilocular, with marginal ovules. The fruit is a short legume, 7.5–11 cm long, 1.5 cm broad, oblong, obtuse, tipped with long style base, flat, thin, papery, undulately crimpled, pilose, pale brown. 12-20 seeds per fruit are carried each in its separate cavity.
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The sepals are cream-coloured, turning brown as they age, elliptic, long, erect, with a ragged, papery, slightly hairy edge. The petals are also cream-coloured but with a dark, brownish band in the centre, egg-shaped, pointed, erect and long. The staminodes are pointed, longer than the stamens, and are a golden-brown colour. The style is about long and gently curved with a few hairs near the tip.
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The plant has short leaves that have a width of with a well developed ligule. The stems at the base of the plant have papery sheaths that are scabrid towards the top. When it flowers it produces a simple, loose inflorescence with a peduncle that has a spike of spikelets with one to three rays. Later it will form a brown to black trigonous nut that is in length.
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Eucalyptus chartaboma, commonly known as paperbark gum, is a eucalypt that is endemic to Queensland. It is a medium-sized tree with soft, papery, fibrous bark on the lower trunk, smooth white to pale cream-coloured bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, orange-coloured flowers and oval to urn-shaped fruit. The flower buds and fruit have distinct ribs along their sides.
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Flowers develop into a light brown, bean-like pod (8 to 10 cm long) with four papery wings. Ripening in July and August, the pods contain red-brown seeds with oval shapes. Stem bark is thin and olive gray in color with irregular dark patches and many smaller scales. The bark has an unpleasant odor and a distinctly acrid and bitter taste, causing a burning sensation in the mouth.
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Melaleuca sieberi is a shrub or tree in the myrtle, family Myrtaceae, which is endemic to coastal areas of New South Wales and Queensland. It is a large shrub or small tree with papery bark on the trunk, small, sharp leaves and small heads of fluffy flowers in spring. It should not be confused with Callistemon sieberi. When the callistemons were moved to Melaleuca, Callistemon sieberi became Melaleuca paludicola.
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Nyctophilus arnhemensis is found inhabiting mangrove, woodland and forest, and favours roosts in thick vegetation, beneath loose cover near a tree trunk. They reside under the papery bark of melaleuca species and especially favour pandanus in riparian zones. It is locally common, but limited by the amount of suitable habitat; they have been reported occupying residential roof structures. There is a preference for mangrove, especially west of the Dampier Peninsula.
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The flower has four or five small sepals, reduced to small projections on the rim of the floral cup. There are four or five more or less round, keeled, overlapping petals and whorls of many creamy white stamens. Unlike in Eucalyptus and Corymbia, the petals and sepals are not fused to form a cap- like operculum. The fruit is a papery or thin, slightly woody, hairy capsule with longitudinal ribs.
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The inflorescence is a simple raceme with only 10 to 12 pale yellow flowers with purple streaks on the labellum. The sepals are long by wide and petals are long by wide. The four lobes of the labellum are rounded and the spur is forward-projecting. Oeceoclades flavescens is similar to O. pulchra but it is very distinctive in the papery leaves and the morphology of the labellum.
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Pinalia fitzalanii is an epiphytic or lithophytic, clump-forming herb with crowded, oval pseudobulbs , wide and covered with papery brown bracts. Each pseudobulb has three or four thin, stiff, egg-shaped leaves and wide. Between five and thirty five resupinate, creamy yellow flowers, long and wide are borne on a flowering stem long. The flowers have soft hairs on the outside, and open widely at first, before becoming cup-shaped.
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The outside surface of the tube is glabrous except for the edges of the lobes. The inner surface of the lobes is glabrous but the inside of the tube is densely filled with woolly hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from May to September and is followed by fruits which are oval to cone-shaped, long with a pointed end and a papery covering.
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The outside of the petal tube is mostly glabrous but the outer surface of the petal lobes is hairy, whilst their inner surface is glabrous. The inside of the tube is filled with long, soft hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering mainly occurs between August and September and is followed by fruit which are dry, woody, oval-shaped and long with a papery covering.
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Calothamnus tuberosus is a compact, highly branched shrub growing to a height of about or more. Its leaves are crowded at the ends of the branches and are long, in diameter, stiff, cylindrical in shape and taper to a prickly point. The flowers are rich red and in small dense spikes amongst the leaves or on the older, leafless branches . The 4 petals are long, thin, papery and orange to brown.
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Baeckea gunniana is a smooth, compact shrub growing to 1.5 m high, although can reach up to 2 m at lower altitudes. It is sometimes prostrate or spreading over rocks and boulders. Branchlets are brown with a flat segment on a papery or fibrous brown bark. Leaves are small (2–4 mm long; 0.6-0.8 mm wide) and crowded, obovate to oblong shaped with a blunt apex, and with entire margins and petioles c.
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Melaleuca nematophylla is an erect, rounded shrub with coarse, brownish, papery bark and which grows to a height of about . Its leaves and branches are glabrous. The leaves are long, wide, circular in cross section and taper to a sharp but not prickly point. The flowers are a shade of pink to purple and are arranged in heads on the ends of most of the branches, which continue to grow after flowering.
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Melaleuca osullivanii is shrub growing to tall with flaky, papery bark. Its leaves are long, wide, linear in shape and oval to almost circular in cross section tapering to a point or with a bristle on the end. The flowers are creamy white and are arranged in heads containing 4 to 9 groups of flowers in threes. The petals are oval to almost circular, long and fall off soon after the flower opens.
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Melaleuca glena is a shrub growing to tall with papery bark and glabrous young stems. Its leaves are flat, narrow egg-shaped, long, wide with rounded ends and 5 to 7 longitudinal veins. The flowers are a shade of pink to purple and are arranged in heads or spikes usually only on the sides of the branches. The spikes are up to in diameter and composed of 5 to 12 groups of flowers in threes.
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Melaleuca interioris is a shrub growing to tall with papery bark. Its leaves are spreading or erect and are long, wide, linear in shape, roughly circular to oblong in cross-section and end in a sharp point. The flowers are yellow and are arranged in heads which are composed of 4 to 9 groups of flowers in threes. The petals are long, circular to egg-shaped and fall off as the flower opens.
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Melaleuca croxfordiae is a large shrub or small tree, sometimes high, with papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, linear to narrow oval in shape, tapering to a point. They are also flat and soft and have a very short stalk. This species has a few heads of flowers, white to creamy-yellow, borne at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, sometimes also in the upper leaf axils.
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The brown onion or yellow onion (Allium cepa L.) is a variety of dry onion with a strong flavour. They have a greenish-white, light yellow, or white inside; its layers of papery skin have a yellow-brown or pale golden colour. It is higher in sulphur content than the white onion, which gives it a stronger, more complex flavour. A dozen varieties of yellow onion are grown, following the time of year.
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Melaleuca megacephala is an erect, bushy shrub with rough bark and brittle branches which grows to high and wide. Its leaves are arranged alternately on the stems, oval to elliptic in shape, concave, long, wide and with 3 to 5 longitudinal veins. The flowers are arranged in hemispherical heads, mostly on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering. Papery brown, overlapping bracts surround the flower buds and remain under the open flowers.
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The whole plant growing amongst scrub along the Thredbo River Xerochrysum subundulatum (commonly named the alpine everlasting or orange everlasting) is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Australia, growing in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania.PlantNET: Xerochrysum subundulatum It is an ascending or erect annual. The plant normally grows to about 60 cm in height, and is usually simple or few-branched. Inflorescence bracts are papery and golden-yellow in colour.
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Melaleuca globifera grows to a height of about and has light brown, papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long and , flat, oblong, thick, usually a slightly pointed end and with 5 to 7 parallel veins. The flowers are in heads at the ends of branches that continue to grow after flowering (and sometimes in the upper leaf axils). Each head has between 12 and 20 groups of flowers in threes in diameter.
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Leionema obtusifolium is a small shrub to high with a smooth, shiny appearance. The branchlets are flattened with noticeable acute angles and a finely warty surface. The sessile leaves are smooth, papery, narrowly elliptic or with straight sides and rounded apex to spoon-shaped, long, wide, minutely scalloped near the apex that is rounded to blunt. The flowers are a cyme formation of 10-20 flowers at the end of branches on slender stalks long.
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Melaleuca kunzeoides is a shrub to with papery bark and glabrous foliage, except for the youngest branchlets and leaves. The leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide and narrow oval to oval in shape and taper to a point. The flowers are yellowish green arranged on spikes on the ends of branches and between the leaves. Each spike contains 5 to 17 individual flowers, or sometimes flowers in pairs or threes.
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Physalis (, , , , from φυσαλλίς phusallís "bladder") is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae), which grow in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the world. Most of the species, of which 75–90 may exist, are indigenous to the Americas. Cultivated species and weedy annuals have been introduced worldwide. A notable feature is the formation of a large, papery husk derived from the calyx, which partly or fully encloses the fruit.
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Orchids in the genus are epiphytic or lithophytic herbs with thread-like roots and relatively large, fleshy pseudobulbs that are usually covered by papery bracts when young. Each pseudobulb has up to three flat, usually leathery leaves. The flowers are usually white, cream-coloured or pinkish, do not open widely and last for up to a few days. The dorsal sepal is free but the lateral sepals are fused to the base of the column.
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Orchids in the genus Pinalia are epiphytic or lithophytic, rarely terrestrial herbs with prominent, fleshy pseudobulbs that are covered with papery brown bracts when young. Each pseudobulb has up to three thin, leathery, linear to lance-shaped leaves. The flowers are resupinate, usually cup-shaped and last for a few days. The dorsal sepal is narrower than the lateral sepals which are attached at their base to the column to form a small ledge.
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The involucre is up to in diameter and consists of a double row of blunt long, almost hairless bracts, with a broad papery margin, which are often flushed red. The outer bracts are elliptical and about wide. The inner bracts are broadly elliptic to inverted egg-shaped and about wide. Each flower head has about ten ray florets with bluish staps of about long and wide with some hairs at the base.
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A shade loving orchid, it is a small to medium-sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte reaching 42 cm in height with conical, ovoid to pear shaped, angular, longitudinally grooved, 2.5 to 8.5 cm in length and 1.5 to 4.5 cm in width pseudobulbs that are enveloped completely by imbricate, persistent, papery sheaths and carrying 2, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, plicate, 9-nerved, undulate, 25-30 cm long and 6 cm wide leaves.
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In spring or early summer, the plant bursts into a striking mass of small flowers, which range in colour from snow white, through to pale blue or lilac. Each flower has five petals, which form together in clusters of around four or five flowers. In summer, these flowers turn to small papery, urn-like fruits, containing several flat, disc-like seeds. Scaevola albida germinates readily from fresh seed and also strikes easily from cuttings.
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Melaleuca fluviatilis is a tree growing up to tall with white or greyish papery bark and weeping habit. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long and wide, very narrow elliptical in shape and with 5 to 7 parallel veins. Both surfaces of the leaf are covered with fine, soft hairs when young but become glabrous as they mature. The flowers are white to creamy green and arranged in spikes in the upper leaf axils.
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The glabrous phyllodes are in length and and have a prominent midvein. It generally blooms between June and September producing simple inflorescences that occur in pairs in the axils and have spherical flower- heads with a diameter of and contain four to eight loosely packed bright yellow flowers. The firmly papery to thinly leathery seed pods that form after flowering are straight to strongly curved with a length of and a width of .
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The plant is a perennial herb that up to and has short and thick rootstock with numerous fibrous and fasciculate roots. It has short stems with a rosette of broadly ovate to broadly elliptic leaves. Thin or very thin papery leaf blades are long, wide, sparsely pubescent, three to seven veins, obtuse to acute apex, broadly cuneate to surrounded base and decurrent to petiole, margins are entire, repand, serrate or dentate. Petioles long, sparsely pubescent.
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It is an aromatic perennial herb growing in a spreading woolly mat or mound with one or more stems up to half a meter in length. The fleshy, waxy, sometimes woolly leaves are 1 to 5 centimeters long and borne in clusters along the stem. The inflorescence is a head of several flowers blooming in a cup of papery, hairy purplish to straw- colored bracts. The flowers are purplish pink in color.
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In seasonally cool regions, flowering only occurs once a year between April and June. In more constant seasonal temperatures and with constant rainfall, flowering can happen twice or even all year-round. The fruit is a hanging, three-sided brown capsule of 20–45 cm size which holds dark brown, globular seeds with a diameter around 1 cm. The seeds have three whitish papery wings and are dispersed by wind and water.
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Orchids in the genus Pachystoma are deciduous, terrestrial herbs with a branching underground rhizome and one or two linear, papery, pleated or veiny leaves. A thin, wiry flowering stem bears smallish, pink drooping flowers that are hairy on the outside. The sepals and petals are similar in size and shape, the lateral sepals having a hump at their base. The labellum has three lobes, the middle lobe projecting forwards and the side lobes unusually large.
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M. evanescens is a succulent annual herb coated with tiny glandular hairs and having a somewhat slimy texture. The thin stems grow mostly erect to a maximum height near 25 centimeters. The leaves are lance-shaped to oval and up to 4 centimeters long by 3 wide. The flowers are small and barely open, their tubular bases enclosed in a ribbed calyx of sepals which becomes papery and inflated as the fruits mature.
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Fresh foliage is a conspicuous red colour and the papery, 1 cm long stipules are soon dropped. The bark of younger trees is smooth and pale greyish-white in colour, in contrast to the flaky, yellow bark of F. sycomorus. With increasing age the bark becomes darker and rough. The figs are carried on short or long drooping spurs (or fascicles) which may emerge from surface roots, the trunk or especially from lower main branches.
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It blooms between October and December and produces flowers that are yellow and held in cylindrical clusters. The spherical flowerheads have a diameter of and contain 55 to 110 densely packed light golden flowers. The narrowly oblong seed pods are pale brown and papery with a length of up to and a width of . The transverse to oblique, dull black seeds have an ovate to oblong-elliptic shape with a length of .
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Up to 25 in number, these are covered in fur and oval, measuring long, by high, and wide. The obovate (egg- shaped) to cuneate (wedge-shaped) seed is long. It is composed of the wedge- shaped seed body (containing the embryonic plant), measuring long by wide, and a papery wing. One side, termed the outer surface, is convex and pale greyish brown with irregular pits and the inner surface is dark brown and smooth.
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Leaves are opposite in arrangement (i.e., produced in pairs along the stems), generally by , in outline generally elliptic or often widest above the middle, usually sharply angled at base and apex, papery in texture, overall smooth or infrequently with microscopic plant hairs on the lower surface, have 5–10 pairs of secondary veins, and on the lower surface usually have foveolae (see next item). The leaves are borne on petioles (i.e., leaf stalks) generally long.
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Melaleuca hemisticta is a shrub growing to tall with grey, papery or fibrous bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, flat, mostly narrow egg-shaped with a mid-vein and 15 to 30 branching veins. The flowers are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes on the sides of the branches. The spikes are in diameter with 10 to 50 individual flowers.
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Monardella linoides is a gray-green perennial herb producing a slender erect stem up to about 50 centimeters in maximum height. The linear to oval leaves are 1 to 4 centimeters long and coated in grayish hairs. The inflorescence is a head of several flowers blooming in a cup of pale whitish or pink-tinged papery bracts 2 or 3 centimeters wide. The flowers are just over a centimeter long and light purple in color.
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It blooms throughout the year but most heavily between September and January producing racemose inflorescences with spherical flower- heads containing between 18 and 50 flowered golden to pale yellow coloured flowers. After flowering linear brown seed pods form that are up in length and wide with a firm papery texture. The dull to slightly shiny dark brown to black seeds within the pods have an oblong to oblong-elliptic shape and a length of .
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The flowers are arranged in compound umbels, without involucral bracts (or with inconspicuous bracts). The flowers are white or yellow, more rarely a purple or maroon color. As with most Apiaceae, the fruit sets the genus apart from other yellow- or white-flowered look-alikes such as Cymopterus and Oreogenia. Uniquely, they are dorsally flattened and winged, which can be papery or corky, but help the seed to disperse further on the wind.
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Bulbophyllum wadsworthii is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb that forms clumps hanging from the substrate. The pseudobulbs are cylindrical long, wide and are arranged along stems that are long with brown, papery bracts partly hiding the pseudobulbs. Each pseudobulb has a grooved, stalkless, elliptic to oblong leaf long and wide with a channelled upper surface. The flowers are cream-coloured to pale green and are arranged in groups of up to three.
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It is a tree reaching 6 meters in height. Its smooth, dark grey to black, young branches are covered in dense, rust-colored, velvety hairs. Its cylindrical petioles are 1.3-2.2 by 0.5-0.8 centimeters and covered in dense, rust-colored, velvety hairs. Its papery to leathery, oblong to lance-shaped leaves are 24-60 by 6.5-12.5 centimeters with rounded apices that end in an abrupt, tapering tip and pointed bases.
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It is also called as the Bearded Coelogyne.thumb It is a small to medium-sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with clustered, ovoid to pear shaped, angular, longitudinally grooved, pale green, 2.5 to 8.5 cm in length and 1.5 to 4.5 cm in width pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricate, persistent, papery sheaths and carrying 2, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, plicate, 9-nerved, undulate, 25-30 cm long and 6 cm wide leaves.
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A geophytic perennial, that can reach up to a meter in height with their flower-stems (normally 80 cm). It has a small number of leaves that are long, slender (3-4mm wide), cylindrical, erect, leathery-surfaced quills. The rosette of leaves is basally enclosed in a grey, papery sheath that has distinctive horizontal bars around it. The rose- scented, star-shaped flowers are white (rarely pink), and appear between September and October (southern hemisphere).
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Melaleuca hypericifolia is a large woody shrub or small tree growing to in height, with greyish papery bark. Its leaves are arranged in alternate pairs (decussate), long, wide, narrow elliptic in shape with a central groove on the upper surface. The flowers are red to orange, arranged in a spike, usually on the older wood. The spike is up to in both diameter and length and contains up to 40 individual flowers.
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Astragalus panamintensis is a small, brambly perennial herb having wiry, tangled, silvery green stems up to long. The leaves are up to long and are made up of a thin central shaft bearing a few widely spaced, pointed linear leaflets. The inflorescence holds one to four pinkish-purple flowers, each around a centimeter long. The fruit is a roughly hairy legume pod which is somewhat triangular in cross-section and dries to a papery texture.
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The marsh milkvetch is a perennial herb forming a thick erect clump of hollow, woolly stems 40 to 90 centimeters tall. The leaves are up to 15 centimeters long and are made up of many narrow oval-shaped leaflets. The inflorescence is a cluster of many whitish to greenish flowers each up to a centimeter in length. The fruit is an inflated, papery legume pod with a small hooked beak at the tip.
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Croton hancei Croton hancei is a monoecious shrub or treelet, ca. 5 m tall; the branches glabrous, the oblong-lanceolate leaves are clustered at the stem apex on petioles 2–5 mm long, the leaf blade 8–18 × 2–5 cm, papery in texture, with both surfaces glabrous; the base is attenuate to obtuse, the margins entire or serrulate, and the apex acuminate. The Inflorescences are terminal, ca. 3 cm, the bracts small.
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Melaleuca ericifolia is a tall, dense shrub, sometimes a tree growing to a height of with pale white or brownish papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, sometimes in whorls of three. The leaves are dark green, linear in shape, long and wide. M. ericifolia flowers M. ericifolia foliage and fruit The flowers are creamy-white in colour, arranged in heads or spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering.
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M. quinquenervia bark showing the papery exfoliation from which the common name "paperbark" derives The first known description of a Melaleuca species was written by Rumphius in 1741, in Herbarium amboinense before the present system of naming plants was written. The plant he called Arbor alba is now known as Melaleuca leucadendra. The name Melaleuca was first used by Linnaeus in 1767. Many species previously known as Metrosideros were then placed in Melaleuca.
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Astragalus congdonii is a hairy perennial herb growing to heights between 20 and 70 centimeters. The sparse leaves are up to 14 centimeters long and are made up of several pairs of oval-shaped leaflets. The large, open inflorescence bears up to 35 cream-colored flowers, each about 1 to 1.5 centimeters long. The fruit is a narrow legume pod up to 3.5 centimeters long which dries to a thick papery texture.
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Melaleuca protrusa is a shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with papery bark, narrow leaves with a hooked end and cream-coloured or yellow flowers. Although it was described as late as 2010, it is not considered a rare or endangered species. It resembles other members of the brushwood group such as M. uncinata, M. atroviridis and M. zeteticorum.
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This genus consists of lianas, often with the characteristic 'cat's claw' spines on their stems. Pods are one or more seeded, with a longitudinal (often narrow) wing along the upper suture and a wing 2 mm or more wide, which may be papery, coriaceous or woody. They may be found in Africa, Madagascar and SE Asia across the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to New Guinea, New Caledonia and Australia, one species endemic to Hawaii.
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Melaleuca saligna is a small tree with white, grey or brown papery bark which grows to about or sometimes twice as high. Its leaves are light green, narrow elliptic in shape, long and wide. There are 3 to 7 longitudinal veins with a distinct mid-vein. The flowers are white to greenish yellow, arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering or in heads in the upper leaf axils.
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Stylidium affine is a perennial plant that possesses long erect or recurved lanceolate leaves. Leaves are long, 2-4 mm wide, and arranged in groups of 2-4, emerging from a basal papery sheath, having the overall appearance of a tuft. Inflorescences are paniculate, long, and densely glandular. Peduncles have 1-3 flowers, which are rose pink to mauve coloured with vertically-paired corolla lobes (anterior and posterior lobes both 8-11 mm long).
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Diplolaena cinerea is a bushy shrub to high. The leaves are soft, papery, elliptic shaped with flat edges, wedge shaped at the base, rounded at the apex, usually long on a short petiole long. The leaf upperside has soft, silky, short, star-shaped hairs and moderately soft, silky and velvety on lower surface. The flowers are about in diameter, the outer bracts oval, about long, soft, grey, sharp or tapering to a point.
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Melaleuca brongniartii is a shrub that can grow to a height of with a pale grey, papery bark. The leaves and branches are covered with fine hairs at first, but become glabrous as they mature. Its leaves are leathery, with a very short stalk and are long and wide. They vary in shape from linear to narrow-elliptic in shape, with the end tapering to a point and have 3 to 5 parallel veins.
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Melaleuca triumphalis grows to a height of and has grey, rather papery bark and hairy young stems. Its leaves are arranged alternately, narrow elliptic in shape, long, wide, covered with fine hairs and have 3 to 5 longitudinal veins. The flowers are arranged in heads or short spikes up to in diameter and contain 10 to 20 groups of flowers in threes. The flowers appear in September and are green, fading to yellow.
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Argyrochosma connectens is a small, epipetric fern that puts up leaves in tight clusters. Leaf stalks and axes are a shiny brown; the leaves have a papery texture, and unlike many members of the genus, are free of light-colored farina (a powdery flavonoid secretion) beneath. The rhizome is short and upright, bearing thin, twisted brown scales of uniform color, awl-shaped to lance-shaped. Fronds spring from the rhizome in dense clusters.
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It has long, slender, grayish-green tubercles 6–12 cm long, with purplish-red blotches at their tips. The tubercles are topped with papery spines, making the plant resemble an agave; old, basal tubercles dry up and fall off. After four years or so, yellow, funnel-shaped flowers 5–6 cm diameter may be borne at the tubercle tips. The fruit is smooth and green, 3 cm long and 2 cm broad.
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The stem has green, inflated, spathe (leaf of the flower bud), They are between long. They also remain green, after the plant has flowered, unlike some others which turn papery. The large spathe leaf, partially, encases the perianth tube. If the plant does not have a branch, it only has 1 spathe. The stem (and the branch) can hold between 1 and 3 flowers, but normally 2 flowers, blooming between April to May.
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Its high salt tolerance makes it a natural choice for colour in coastal regions. It can be pruned into a standard, but is also grown along fence lines, on walls, in containers and hanging baskets, and as a hedge or an accent plant. Its long arching thorny branches bear heart-shaped leaves and masses of papery bracts in white, pink, orange, purple, and burgundy. Many cultivars, including double-flowered and variegated, are available.
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Melaleuca sieberi is a small tree with white, grey or brown papery bark which sometimes grows to a height of but more usually less than . Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, narrow elliptic to lance-shaped and tapering to a sharp point. The leaves are often covered with short, soft hairs, especially when young. The flowers are white or pinkish, arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering.
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H. stylosa is a shrub around 1.5 meters tall (~5 ft.) with branches which become more pubescent with age, eventually reaching a grey-white colour. The petioles of H. stylosa are 1.5–3 cm (0.5-1 in.) in size and are pubescent and brown in colour. These bear glabrous, papery leaves roughly 6–14 cm by 3–7 cm (3-5.5 in x 1–2.75 in). The leaves may have midvein pubescence.
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Bryobium eriaeoides is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb that forms large clumps with cylindrical pseudobulbs long and wide covered with papery white bracts when young. Each pseudobulb has a thin elliptic to lance-shaped leaf long and wide. Between three and twelve cup-shaped, resupinate white to purplish flowers long and wide are arranged on a flowering stem long. The flowers are self-pollinating and open only slowly or not at all.
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It is a vigorous shrub to 3 m, takes a rounded form and has many branches covered in deciduous leaves. The leaves are pale green and made up of many pairs of slightly hairy oval-shaped leaflets, each up to about 3 cm long. The inflorescence is a raceme of generally pea-like yellow flowers about 3 cm long. The fruit is an inflated bladdery pod which dries to a papery texture.
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Melaleuca condylosa is a shrub growing to a height of about with papery bark. Its leaves are alternately arranged, long and wide, more or less linear in shape, almost circular in cross-section and have a pointed, although not sharp end. The flowers are in heads at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering. Each head is composed of 6 to 11 groups of flowers with three flowers in each group.
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The hairy water lily is an aquatic plant having erect perennial rhizomes or rootstocks that anchor it to the mud in the bottom. The rhizomes produce slender stolons. Its leave blades are round above the water and heart-shaped below 15–26(–50) cm, papery, abaxially densely pubescent. Some of the leaves that emerge rise slightly above the water held by their stem in lotus fashion, but most of them just float on the surface.
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Viburnum molle Ohio Division of Natural Resources Viburnum molle is a woody shrub that spreads by underground runners. It produces clusters of small white flowers in late spring. It has distinctive papery bark which peels off in sheets. Although it bears a superficial resemblance to the more widespread Viburnum dentatum, it can be distinguished by its ovate-orbicular leaves with strictly cordate leaf bases, its prominent long-filiform stipules, and its ellipsoid fruit.
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Correa aemula is an erect to spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of and has woolly-hairy branches. The leaves are papery, broadly heart-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long and covered with star-shaped hairs. The flowers are arranged singly, sometimes in pairs, in leaf axils or on the ends of short shoots, each on a pendent pedicel long. The calyx is cup-shaped with four lance-shaped lobes long.
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The fruit is a long, thin legume-like capsule, 20–40 cm long and 10–12 mm diameter; it often stays attached to tree during winter (and can be mistaken for brown icicles). The pod contains numerous flat, light brown seeds with two papery wings. It is closely related to southern catalpa, and can be distinguished by the flowering panicles, which bear a smaller number of larger flowers, and the slightly broader seed pods.
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Boronia chartacea is a shrub that grows to a height of with young branches that are hairy. The leaves are papery, elliptic to oblong, long and wide on a petiole long. The leaves are covered with warty glands and the edges are turned downwards or rolled under. The flowers are bright pink and are arranged singly or in groups of up to three in leaf axils, each flower on a stalk long.
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The simple inflorescences are found in groups of 5 to 29 in an axillary racemes with an axis that is in length. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 9 to 15 pale to bright yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering firmly papery to thin leathery, glabrous seed pods form that are straight and flat with a length of and are wide and are often covered in a powdery white coating.
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It blooms between August and November producing inflorescences that occur in groups of three to twelve in the axillary racemes. The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 30 to 50 pale yellow to almost white coloured flowers. The firmly papery to leathery seed pods that form after flowering are straight and flat and can be constricted between the seeds. The pods are in length and wide with longitudinally arranged seeds inside.
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These flowers are displayed on rambling branches, sometimes as a short shrub, often extending prostrate. They range inland in coastal regions Southern and Eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Platylobium is found to have a distinct wing on the pod, this distinguishes the genus from that of Bossiaea. Examination of the ovate leaves, distinction in the brown papery parts near the bract and diversion in the form of various parts will allow identification of the two species described below.
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Calothamnus chrysanthereus is an erect, dense or spreading shrub which grows to a height of about with corky bark on the older branches. Its leaves are crowded near the ends of the branches, needle-like, mostly long and wide, circular in cross section and tapering at the end to a sharp point. The flowers are arranged in clusters or loose spikes of up to 10, mostly on the older leafless stems. The five petals are long and papery.
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The base of the petals (strictly tepals) form a tube long, which, unlike most others in the genus (but not C. hispida), is glabrous. The outer part of the petals are blue with bronze margins and spread outwards to form a papery, star-like pattern which fades to white with age. In the centre of the star are six yellow stamens forming a tube which turns orange-red with age. The thin style sometimes extends beyond the stamens.
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Betula grossa foliage Betula grossa is conical in outline, but its most distinctive feature is its cherry-like bark, with horizontal stripes of reddish-grey becoming dark grey with age, exfoliating in thin papery curls. The dark green leaves are up to 10 cm long and turn golden-yellow in autumn. The shoots are aromatic, and carry long, yellow-brown, male catkins in early spring. . The species is considered closely related to the American birch Betula lenta.
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At the center of the funnel-shaped corolla are five stamens tipped with yellow anthers. The fruit is a capsule around a centimeter in length containing a few seeds. The plant occurs in Florida scrub habitat on deep, dry, white sand in clearings among sand pines (Pinus clausa) and other scrub flora. Other rare plants in the region include highlands scrub hypericum (Hypericum cumulicola), papery whitlow-wort (Paronychia chartacea), scrub plum (Prunus geniculata), and scrub lupine (Lupinus aridorum).
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Eucalyptus × balanites is a mallee or a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, corky or flaky, pale grey to yellowish bark on its trunk and larger branches and thin papery bark on the upper stems. The leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are elliptical, up to long, wide and always have a petiole. Adult leaves are usually lance-shaped, long and wide with a petiole long.
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It has an internal shell which is small (about 1 in or 24 mm) but very light and buoyant. This chambered shell floats very well and therefore washes up easily and is familiar to beachcombers in the tropics. Nautilus is the only genus of cephalopod that has a well-developed external shell. Females of the cephalopod genus Argonauta create a papery egg case which sometimes washes up on tropical beaches and is referred to as a "paper nautilus".
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The flowers range in colour from the more usual dark red through to pinkish-cream and appear over a long period from as early as August to as late as April. The petals are papery brown, long and fall off as the flowers age. The stamens are arranged in bundles of five around the flower, with 12 to 33 stamens in each bundle. The fruit are woody capsules, long and in diameter and form cylindrical clusters along the stem.
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Melaleuca groveana is a large shrub or tree with fibrous or papery bark which grows to a height of . Its leaves are arranged alternately on the stems, narrow elliptical in shape, long, wide tapering to a point, with a stalk long. The leaves have a distinct midvein and several lateral veins. The white flowers are grouped in spikes up to long at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, and sometimes in the upper leaf axils.
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Melaleuca viminea grows to in height and has fibrous or papery bark. Its leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, each leaf long and wide, linear to narrow oval in shape, tapering to a point. Its flowers are in heads, at or near the ends of the branches in groups, in diameter composed of 5 to 50 individual white or cream flowers. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower, each bundle having 3 to 16 stamens.
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Melaleuca hamulosa is dense, bushy shrub or small tree growing to about , sometimes high with fibrous or papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately around the stem and are more or less pressed against it. The leaves are long and wide, linear, almost circular in cross section and have a hooked end. The flowers are white, pale mauve or pink in spikes of between 30 and 60 individual flowers, the spikes up to long and in diameter.
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Melaleuca irbyana is a large shrub or small tree with thick, spongy, papery bark, growing to a height of . It has a dense, rounded canopy and fine, weeping foliage. The leaves are stalkless, but usually less than long and wide, oval or narrowly oval in shape tapering to a point and pressed against the branchlets. The flowers are white and scented and arranged in spikes at, or near the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering.
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It is often confused with Iris trojana (now classed as a synonym of Iris germanica) and Iris cypriana. It is also similar in form to Iris cypriana but outer bract (spathe) is brown and papery in the upper third only.James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey (Editors) It is a geophyte, that has thick rhizomes, which are stoloniferous, and semi-buried in the ground. It has linear, green,British Iris Society (1997) or grey-green, glaucous leaves.
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The branches reduce in size as you go up the stem, starting from the middle. The branches can be long, when compared to Iris albicans (another white flowered iris sometimes called Iris florentina subsp. albicans (Lange) K.Richt.), The stem has 1–2, (scarious) membranous or sub-scarious, spathes (leaves of the flower bud).British Iris Society (1997) At flowering time, the spathes become brown and papery,James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey (Editors) or fully scarious.
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Pickled and frozen fiddleheads, however, can be found in some shops year-round. The vegetable is typically steamed, boiled and/or sautéed before being eaten hot, with hollandaise sauce, butter, lemon, vinegar and/or garlic, or chilled in salad or with mayonnaise. To cook fiddleheads, it is advised to remove the brown papery husk before washing in several changes of cold water, then boil or steam them. Boiling reduces the bitterness and the content of tannins and toxins.
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Phebalium squamulosum is a shrub that typically grows to a height of , sometimes a slender tree to . It has smooth branchlets covered with rust-coloured scales. The leaves are papery or leathery, linear to elliptical or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on a petiole long. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less glabrous but the lower side is covered with silvery to rust-coloured scales and star- shaped hairs.
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The inflorescence is a compound umbel with up to 40 rays holding clusters of small white to cream flowers. There are papery sheaths at the base of each petiole where it branches from the stem (see image at left). The plants overall are rather similar to the other large umbellifers cow parsnip and swamp whiteheads, but cow parsnips have huge lobed but undivided leaves, while swamp whiteheads have pinnate leaves and the individual flowerheads are dense, round balls.
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Physalis alkekengi (bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry groundcherry, or winter cherry) is a distant relative of the new world P. peruviana (Cape gooseberry). This species is native to Asia unlike the rest of Physalis that is native to the Americas. It is easily identifiable by the large, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resembles paper lanterns. It grows naturally in the regions covering Southern Europe to South Asia and Northeast Asia.
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Orchids in the genus Pholidota are sympodial epiphytic, lithophytic or, rarely, terrestrial herbs with pseudobulbs, each with one or two large, stalked leathery leaves. A large number of small flowers are arranged in two ranks along a thin, wiry flowering stem that emerges from the top of the pseudobulb. There is a large, papery bract at the base of each flower. The flowers are white, cream-coloured, yellowish or pinkish with a concave dorsal sepal and smaller petals.
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It has 1–2.5 cm long, white, funnel-form or cup shaped perianth tube, long, white style branches, and 2 lobed stigmas. After the iris has flowered, it produces an ovoid to oblong-elliptic, triangular in cross section, seed capsule, long and 2-2.5 cm wide, with a beaked top. The brown seed capsule has 2 ribs. Inside the seed capsule, are 2 rows of papery, wrinkled, white, flattened or wedged-shaped seeds, that are 4-5mm across.
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Calothamnus brevifolius is a small, spreading, densely branched, glabrous shrub growing to a height of about with thick bark on the older stems. Its leaves are mostly crowded on the younger branches, long, wide, linear, almost circular in cross section and tapering to a sharp but not prickly point. The flowers are dark pink and arranged in short dense clusters of 1 to 5 around the stem, usually on the younger branches. The petals are papery and long.
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Alternanthera philoxeroides can thrive in both dry and aquatic environments and is characterized by whitish, papery flowers along its short stalks, irregular, or sprawling hollow stems, and simple and opposite leaf pattern sprouting from its nodes. The species is dioecious. It is also considered a herbaceous plant due to its short-lived shoot system. It produces horizontal stems, otherwise known as stolons, that can sprout up to in length and thanks to its hollow stems, floats easily.
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Calothamnus formosus is a large, spreading, densely branched shrub growing to a height of about , sometimes higher, with thick bark on the older stems. Its leaves are crowded on the ends of the younger branches, long, wide, linear, almost circular in cross section and tapering to a sharp but not prickly point. The flowers are crimson and arranged in short clusters of 3 to 5, usually on the older, leafless stems. The petals are thin and papery, long.
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Calothamnus cupularis is a shrub growing to a height of about with stems that are hairy at first but become glabrous over time. Its leaves are needle-like, mostly long and wide, circular in cross section and tapering at the end to a sharp point. The flowers are bright red and have 5 petals and 5 claw-like bundles of stamens, each about long. The sepals have a thickened rib in their centre and wide papery margins.
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It is a tree reaching 15-40 meters in height. Its petioles 4.5-11.5 by 1.4–3.4 millimeters and hairless or slightly hairy. Its papery to slightly leathery, oblong to elliptical leaves are 14.5–25.5 by 4.5–8 centimeters long, with short tapering tips and pointed to round bases. The tops of the leaves are matt and hairless while the undersides are hairless to slightly hairy. The leaves have 11–16 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs.
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Rhizochaete fruit bodies have a hymenophore surface texture that ranges from smooth to tuberculate (with knots or rounded bumps). When moist, the hymenophore is membranaceous (membrane-like) to pellicular (forming a peel or thin crust). When dry, the hymenophore becomes leathery or papery, and may often be readily peeled from its substrate. The outer margin of the fruit body is fimbriate (fringed with hairs or fibres) or fibrillose (appearing as if made of fine, silky threads).
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Eleocharis montevidensis is a rhizomatous perennial herb forming tufts or mats of erect, firm stems up to half a meter tall. The narrow grasslike leaves are dark purplish or reddish brown at the bases, becoming lighter in color toward the tips, and drying to a thin, papery texture. The inflorescence is an oval-shaped spikelet appearing at the tip of the stem. It is under a centimeter long and made up of several flowers covered in brownish bracts.
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Oval in shape, wrinkled in texture and covered with fine hair, they can reach 4.5 cm (1.8 in) long, 3 cm (1.2 in) high, and 3 cm (1.2 in) wide. The obovate seed is long and fairly flattened, and is composed of the wedge-shaped seed body proper, measuring long and wide, and a papery wing. One side, termed the outer surface, is dark brown and wrinkled, while the other is black and smooth. Both surfaces sparkle slightly.
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Acer shenkanense is an Asian species of maple. It has been found only in China (Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan)Flora of China, Acer shenkanense W. P. Fang ex C. C. Fu, 1981. 陕甘枫 shan gan feng Acer shenkanense is a small deciduous tree up to 10 meters tall with brown or gray bark. Leaves are non-compound, up to 10 cm wide and 12 cm across, thin and papery, with 3 or 5 lobes.
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It begins right away with the trancelike 'Regular John', a track that layers Homme's yelping guitar accents over a fuzzy groove. While other metalheads play around with sequencers, Queens of the Stone Age have something a little more heated and classical in mind. The rest of the album charges on with its compelling contrasts between Homme's papery vocals and the surrounding rampage. Sometimes the songs explore pure heaviness, as on the wall-rattling 'Walkin' on the Sidewalks'.
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Melaleuca dissitiflora is usually a tall, bushy shrub which grows to high, wide and has grey papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, glabrous except when very young, linear to elliptic in shape and tapering to a point. The flowers are white to cream-coloured and are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering. The spikes are up to in diameter, long and contain between 10 and 30 individual flowers.
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Ischaemum rugosum is a resilient annual that inhabits marshes and other wet habitats, growing in loose clumps to heights of 10–100 cm. The species is primarily recognized by the wrinkled texture of the sessile spikelet’s lower glume, with 4–7 distinct horizontal ribs. The plant produces brown, ovoid grains 2 mm long. The culms are wrapped by a papery, loose leaf sheath up to 16 cm long, with bulbous-based hairs at the node base and sheath margin.
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Reaching as much as in diameter, it is soft and pudgy at first, but later becomes dry and papery. The gall provides a nutritious, protective environment and there may be as many as thirty larvae developing inside. Males and females emerge from different galls after two to three months. After mating, the females descend to the ground where they make their way into the soil and lay their eggs singly inside the small rootlets of the oak.
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The flowers are cream coloured, arranged in heads on old wood or sometimes on the ends of branches and contain 4 to 14 individual flowers. The heads are up to wide. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower, each bundle containing 2 to 4 stamens. The flowering season is mainly early spring and is followed by the fruit which are cup-shaped woody or papery capsules long and about in diameter in clusters.
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Melaleuca saligna is a shrub or tree in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) and is endemic to the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. It is a small tree with papery bark on the trunk, pendulous branches and white to greenish-yellow flowers between February and November. This species should not be confused with Callistemon salignus. If that species were to be moved to the genus Melaleuca, as proposed by some authors, its name would become Melaleuca salicina.
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Many of her lamps have lampshades which appear like fans and allow a variety of light and shade impressions. The pendant luminaire Plissé produced by Luceplan can be unfolded like an accordion, as the material is pleated. In 2009 the lamp manufacturer Moustache launched the series of Vapeur pendants and table lamps with their characteristic lampshades made out of densely folded Tyvek-fleece. This thin, papery material is either white or printed with very thin lines in delicate colours.
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B. rosserae (rear) in its natural habitat, amongst Acacia and Triodia species. Very little is known of the ecology of B. rosserae. Its massive lignotuber is clearly an adaptation to desert conditions, providing a store of water during extended periods of drought, and a store of energy from which it can resprout after bushfire. Marriott also considers its papery bark to be an adaptation to desert conditions, although he does not elaborate on how the plant benefits from it.
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Eucalyptus chartaboma is a tree that grows to a height of up to , often with several stems, and forms a lignotuber. The bark on the lower trunk is soft, fibrous and papery, brownish to white, smooth white to cream-coloured above. The leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are egg-shaped, dull green, long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, a paler shade of dull green on the lower side, long and wide.
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Around the stem of both these species there is a papery sheath known as an ocrea with stiff spine-like hairs at the top, but in P. cespitosa these hairs are much longer, as long as the visible portion of the ocrea, whereas in P. maculosa they are much shorter.Mehrhoff LJ, Silander JAJ, Leicht SA, Mosher ES, Tabak NM (2003) IPANE. Invasive plant atlas of New England. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
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The firm and large flower heads sit individually on top of an almost leafless, hairy stalk of up to long. The involucre is about across, and consisting of two strict rows of equally long bracts. Those in the outer row are about 1 mm (0.04 in) wide, lance-shaped, roughly and glandular hairy with a fringe of hairs near the tip. Those in the inner row narrowly obovate, 1 mm wide, with a broad papery margin and eventually hairless.
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Leionema ellipticum is a small shrub to high with smooth, glossy, more or less terete branchlets. The leaves are elliptic, tapering at the base, about long, wide, smooth, papery and rounded at the apex. The inflorescence is a clusters of flowers, each flower about long on a pedicel long and sporadically covered with minute, upright soft hairs. The sepals are shortly attached to the base of the flower, fleshy, triangular shaped, about long and bracteoles falling off early.
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Melaleuca cajuputi is usually a medium to large tree, often growing to and sometimes to with grey, brownish or whitish papery bark. The new growth is silky-hairy, becoming glabrous as it matures. The leaves are arranged alternately long and wide, tapering at both ends. The flowers are white, cream or greenish-yellow mostly in dense spikes at the ends of the branches which continue to grow after flowering but also often in the axils of the upper leaves.
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The flowers are deep red and in dense clusters of 4 to 8 individual flowers, usually on the older branches and between the leaves. The petals are long, thin, papery and orange to brown. The stamens are arranged in 5 claw-like bundles with 20 to 25 stamens per bundle. Flowering occurs from October to February and is followed by fruits which are woody, almost spherical capsules which are hairy at first but become glabrous with age.
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Calectasia palustris is an undershrub with stilt roots 40-110 mm long but without a rhizome. It grows to a height of about 70 cm with many short side branches. Each leaf blade is 7-23 x 0.4-0.7 mm tapering to a short, sharp point on the end. The base of the petals (strictly tepals) form a tube 9.9-10.1 mm long, while the outer parts spread outwards to form a blue, papery star-like pattern fading to red with age.
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Pancratium maximum is a perennial glabrous herb up to 20 cm tall arising from a bulb. The bulb is globose, 4–6 cm in diameter, narrowed above into a cylindrical neck, covered with several layers of dark reddish brown papery tunics. Leaves 2–7 cm long, variable in width, linear-elliptic to narrowly elliptic or ovate and abruptly narrowed into a petiole below, 10–30 cm long x 2.3–18 cm across. The flower is white with yellow anthers and black angular seeds.
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Melaleuca vinnula is a multi-stemmed shrub growing to a height of with grey, peeling papery bark. Its leaves are linear to oval, long and wide and with a short stalk. Head of flowers appear on the ends of the branches in November and December, each head composed of 6 to 16 groups of flowers, each group composed of three flowers. The stamens are white to yellow, in five bundles around the flower with five to seven stamens per bundle.
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Melaleuca scalena is a shrub growing to tall with peeling, papery bark. Its leaves are long, wide, roughly circular in cross section, with the end tapering to a point and often with a short bristle. The flowers are pale yellow and arranged in heads containing 5 to 14 groups of flowers in threes. There are 5 sepals which are almost free from each other and five petals, each broadly egg-shaped, long and which fall off as the flower opens.
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Melaleuca hnatiukii is a shrub growing to tall with whitish, papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, elliptic to narrow egg-shaped, flat, long, wide with a short, prickly point on the end. The flowers are white or cream-coloured and arranged in heads or short spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter and composed of 2 to 12 groups of flowers in threes.
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They have a length of and a width of and are hairy when young but become glabrous with age. The shrub usually blooms in the summertime between December and March producing simple inflorescences that occur singly in the axils with spherical flower-heads that have a diameter of containing 10 to 25 bright golden flowers. After flowering firmly, papery and brittle seed pods will form that are straight, and raised over the seeds inside. The pods are in length and wide.
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Melaleuca dealbata is a relatively slow- growing tree to with blue-grey foliage, hairy, pendulous branchlets and papery, layered bark. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches and are elliptic to oval in shape, long, wide and have five to seven prominent longitudinal veins. Young shoots and twigs are densely clothed in erect, white or silver hairs. The small, creamy-white flowers are loosely arranged in 7 to 28 groups of three on spikes up to long and wide.
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Melaleuca microphylla is a dense, rounded shrub growing to about high with glabrous foliage and grey or white papery bark. The leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, linear to narrow lance-shaped and with a blunt or slightly pointed end. The flowers are white to creamy yellow and are arranged in small heads on the ends of the branches which continue to grow after flowering. The heads are up to long, in diameter and contain between 10 and 50 individual flowers.
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Plants with common bunt may be moderately stunted but infected plants cannot be easily recognized until near maturity and even then it is seldom conspicuous. After initial infection, the entire kernel is converted into a sorus consisting of a dark brown to black mass of teliospores covered by a modified periderm, which is thin and papery. The sorus is light to dark brown and is called a bunt ball. The bunt balls resemble wheat kernels but tend to be more spherical.
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The style is initially cream, but turns red; the pollen presenter is green. Old flowers soon fall from the flower heads (often called cones at this stage), revealing a woody base which may have up to five follicles embedded in it. These are a mottled grey colour, smooth, felted with short fine hairs, and measure from high, along the seam, and across the seam. Each follicle contains up to two seeds; these are roughly triangular in shape, with a large papery wing.
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Leionema ralstonii is a small shrub to about high with smooth, substantially angular branchlets. The smooth leaves are sessile, about long, wide, smooth edges rolled under when dry, papery texture, with a slight notch at the rounded apex. The inflorescence is a tight cluster of 4-7 flowers at the end of branches. The smooth leaves are more or less lance shaped, broader at the apex, long, wide, gradually narrowing at the base, margins rolled under or upward when dry.
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The tōtara is a medium to large tree which grows slowly to around 20 to 25 m, exceptionally to 35 m; it is noted for its longevity and the great girth of its trunk. The bark peels off in papery flakes, with a purplish to golden brown hue. The sharp, dull green needle-like leaves are stiff and leathery, 2 cm long. This plant produces highly modified cones with 2 to 4 fused, fleshy berry-like juicy scales, bright red when mature.
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Melaleuca arcana grows to a height of and has whitish, papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, broadly egg-shaped with a blunt tip and with 5 to 11 parallel veins. The flowers are white or cream, sometimes pinkish and arranged in heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter and contain between 5 and 11 groups of flowers in threes.
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Melaleuca hamata is a large shrub, sometimes a small tree growing to a height of , with flaking papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, upward-pointing and needle-like, up to long and in diameter and with a sharp tip which is often hooked. The flowers are a shade of yellow, through cream to white. They are in almost spherical heads in many of the upper leaf axils, each head about in diameter and containing 5 to 15 groups of flowers in threes.
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Melaleuca haplantha is a spreading shrub with papery bark to about tall. Its leaves are arranged in alternate pairs (decussate), each leaf long and wide, linear or very narrow elliptic in shape and tapering to a point. The flowers are white to creamy-yellow, in heads at or near the ends of the branches which often continue to grow after flowering and are about in diameter. There is usually only one flower in the head but sometimes up to three flowers.
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Melaleuca lasiandra is a large shrub or small tree growing to high with white or grey papery bark. The leaves have a narrow oval shape, a small pointed end and are long and wide. They are also very densely covered with fine hairs so that they appear silvery-grey. The flowers are yellowish green or white, and are arranged in heads at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, as well as in the upper leaf axils.
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It is found in the Coast Ranges of central and northern California, from Merced County to Humboldt County.Calflora Taxon Report 232, Allium serra D. McNeal & F. Ownbey, jeweled onion Allium serra plant produces a small herringbone-patterned bulb an average of one centimeter in diameter. It has a long stem on which it bears a tightly bunched umbel of flowers. The attractive bright pink flowers are thimble or bell-shaped, often iridescent when new and becoming papery as they dry.
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By the end of winter, the new growth stops and appears to decay, becoming more yellow and soft in the spring. The flower buds can then push through the softened flesh. With the onset of the full summer drought, flowering ends, the old flesh gradually dries into a papery sheath and the plants enter a brief dormancy (which can last any period between a few weeks and four months). The first new rains bring it out of dormancy and commence the cycle again.
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Producing showy, mauve and purple flowers in profusion, the species is either single- or multi-stemmed, with pale, smooth grayish-brown bark. The softly pubescent leaves have coarsely toothed margins, are dark green above and a paler green below. The papery calyx is dusty-pink or mauve in colour, while the bilabiate corolla is deep-blue or violet. The genus Karomia was first described in 1932 by the botanist Paul Louis Amans Dop (1876-1954) in 'Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat.
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The flower heads are individually set on top of an up to long stalk, that mostly carries no bracts but rarely very narrow bracts. The involucre is up to in diameter and consists of a double row of long bracts. The outer bracts are lance-shaped, about 1½ mm (0.06 in) wide, and carry long hairs or glandular bristles. The inner bracts are narrowly inverted egg-shaped and about 2 mm (0.08 in) wide, with a few hairs and a papery margin.
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The stem has broad, spathes (leaves of the flower bud), which are green in the lower half, and (scarious) membranous or brown and papery, in the upper third of the leaf. The stems (and the branches) hold between 3 and 8, or 9 flowers. Each stem carries 2–3 flowers, at the terminal end of each branch, there is always a single flower per stem. It blooms early in the season, between late spring and early summer, between May, and June.
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The erect flowerheads stand individually at the tip of the stems or with two or three together. Each is 3–4 cm long, 4½–6 cm wide, and contains disk florets only. The common base of the florets (or receptacle) is flat with indents where the florets are inplanted, while scales and hairs are absent. The bell-shaped involucre consists of four to five rows of green bracts, sometimes tinged purple at the stretched tip and with a papery irregularly fine dentate edge.
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Calothamnus accedens grows to a height of about and has a single trunk, sometimes with papery bark, but is densely branched. Its leaves are crowded at the ends of the branches, stiff and needle-like, mostly long and wide. They are covered with long, whitish hairs at first but become glabrous with age and have distinct oil glands. The flowers are a shade of dark pink to crimson and arranged in clusters of 4 to 10, mostly on one side of the stem.
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Each five- lobed, funnel-shaped flower is about a centimeter wide and magenta or pink to nearly white in color. The flowers open for only a few hours and drop, leaving the shaggy-haired developing fruits in the drying, papery cup of bracts. The root is a thick, fleshy taproot. Four-o'-clock is host to the larvae (caterpillars) of several micromoths: Embola ionis is a stem borer, Neoheliodines cliffordi and N. nyctaginella are leaf skeletonizers, and Aetole tripunctella is a leaf miner.
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Melaleuca shiressii is a shrub or small tree growing to high with white or grey papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, more or less flat, narrow elliptic or narrow egg-shaped and end in a sharp point. There is a mid-vein, marginal veins and 12–23 distinct lateral veins and there are many distinct oil glands. The edges of the leaves are often curled under and the lower surface is paler than the upper one.
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Melaleuca salicina is a shrub or small tree growing to high with soft, pink new growth and white or grey papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, more or less flat, narrow elliptic in shape and tapering towards both ends. There is a mid-vein, marginal veins and 9-29 distinct lateral veins. The flowers are white or creamy-white and are arranged in spikes at the end of, or around the branches which continue to grow after flowering.
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Melaleuca clarksonii is a tree growing up to tall usually with hard, fibrous, but sometimes also papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, ovate to elliptical in shape, with a distinct petiole long and 5 to 9 parallel veins. The flowers are white to greenish-cream coloured, in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering. The spikes are up to in diameter and contain 9 to 15 groups of 3 flowers per group.
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It produces an abundance of scented, orange- yellow flowers in panicles 10–20 cm long; flowering is in the spring. In southern Africa, this is usually just at the end of the dry season, often about mid-October. The pod is 2–3 cm diameter, surrounded by a circular wing 8–12 cm diameter, reminiscent of a brown fried egg, and containing a single seed. This brown papery and spiky seed pod stays on long after the leaves have fallen.
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It has yellowish-brown exfoliating bark that peels in woody scales rather than papery pieces like Acer griseum. The leaves have a petiole and three leaflets; the leaflets are long and broad, with serrated margins, the central leaflet the same size as or slightly larger than the two side leaflets. The flowers are yellow, produced in small corymbs of three small flowers each, hence the name. The samaras are long and 1.3–2 cm broad, hairy, the nutlet with a woody shell.
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The flower heads are grouped in cylindric aggregations in the axils of the higher leaves of the stems. The bracts that subtend each flower head are either small and woody, or enlarged, bright in colour, papery or fleshy. The individual flower heads contain three to thirty-five flowers, relatively few compared to many other Proteaceae genera. This, and the sometimes bright coloration of the leaves and bracts in the inflorescence, result in the flower head functioning more or less as a single flower.
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Ephedra trifurca is a sprawling shrub that can approach in height. It is made up of erect, sharp-pointed twigs which are light green when young and age to yellowish or greenish gray. It has curling, pointed leaves at its nodes which are up to 1.5 centimeters long and persistent. Male plants produce pollen cones at the nodes, each up to a centimeter long, and female plants produce seed cones which are slightly larger and each contain one seed in a papery envelope.
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Bulbophyllum wadsworthii, commonly known as the yellow rope orchid, is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that forms clumps that hang off the surface on which the plant is growing. The pseudobulbs are small and partly hidden by brown, papery bracts. Each pseudobulb has a single fleshy, dark green leaf and a single star-shaped, cream-coloured or pale green flower with an orange labellum. It mainly grows on trees and rocks in rainforest and is endemic to Queensland.
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Nematolepis elliptica is a small shrub to high with rounded, scaly, warty branches. The leaves are elliptic or oblong-oval, long, wide, margins flat, rounded to notched at the apex, papery, smooth on the upper surface, silvery scales on lower surface. The flowers are in groups of 2–5 in short cymes about long, both individual flower stalk and the cyme peduncle are thick and scaly. The small bracts are almost flattened, leaf- like, smaller near apex of branch and discarded early.
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It is a tree reaching 15-20 meters in height. Its twigs are hairless when mature. Its papery to leathery, elliptical to lance-shaped leaves are 6.5-25 by 1.5-6.5 centimeters with wedge shaped bases and tips that taper to a point. Both sides of the leaves are hairless except for short hairs on the upper surface of the midrib. The leaves have 5-15 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs that arch to form loops near the leaf margins.
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Flowering occurs in spring. The tubular or funnel-shaped flowers are highly variable in colour, ranging from cream-white or all-white to maroon-throated, burgundy or even yellow-orange. Flowering is followed in summer by 3–8 cm (1.4–3.4 in) long and 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) wide oblong-shaped seed pods, which are initially bright green before turning brown and releasing numerous papery seeds around 1-1.5 cm (0.5 in) in diameter which are released in large quantities.
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Oil of wintergreen can be distilled from the bark. The papery, shredded bark, is very flammable due to its oil content and can be peeled off and used as a fire starter even in wet conditions. Yellow birch can be tapped for syrup similarly to sugar maple, and although the sap has less sugar content, it flows in greater quantity than sugar maple. When the sap is boiled down, the wintergreen evaporates and leaves a syrup not unlike maple syrup.
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Calectasia browneana is an undershrub with stilt roots but without a rhizome. It grows to a height of about 60 cm with many very short side branches. Each leaf blade is 8.3-15.2 x 0.2-0.4 mm tapering to a short, sharp point on the end and densely covered with fine hairs. The base of the petals (strictly tepals) form a tube 7.2-8.0 mm long, while the outer parts spread outwards to form a pale blue-pink, papery star-like pattern.
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The obovate (egg- shaped) seed is long and fairly flattened. It is composed of the wedge-shaped seed body (containing the embryonic plant), measuring long by wide, and a papery wing. One side, termed the outer surface, is grey and wrinkled and the other is black and sparkles slightly. The seeds are separated by a sturdy dark brown seed separator that is roughly the same shape as the seeds with a depression where the seed body sits adjacent to it in the follicle.
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In the period with Litfiba, Cavallo produced together with Carlo Barducci (Parsifal studios owner) the first album by the folk band Scaramouche and of Morpin. When he departed from Litfiba came back to informatics and now he is General Manager and co-founder of VirtualCom Interactive, one of the most important national software houses. In Virtualcom he invented an advanced ePaper solution for mobile devices used by thousand Italian and international newspaper to show online the contents of the papery magazine.
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Melaleuca cuticularis is usually a shrub growing to a height of high but sometimes develops into a tree as high as . The leaves are linear to oblong, grey-green to dark green in colour and long and wide. The trunk of M. cuticularis is covered in a pale papery bark and connects to rigid and torturous branches. The flowers are in groups of three, white or cream in colour, located on the ends of the branches and surrounded by overlapping brown bracts.
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The latter's thin and papery envelope surrounds a mass of spores and fertile tissue known as the gleba. The central part of the gleba contains a pseudocolumella (a columella not attached to the stalk), that is typically cylindrical or club-shaped, and extends up from the base. Because of the variability in columella persistence, size, structure and shape within the genus, its value for identification is limited. The exoperidium's rays are long and up to 4 mm (3/16 in) thick.
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The main distinguishing characters of S. graminifolius are its papery (chartaceous) spikelet glumes that have reddish- purplish streaking throughout. Another key character of S. graminifolius is that its lower primary inflorescence bracts are widened at the base. Schoenus auritus also has lower primary inflorescence bracts that are widened at the base; however, that species has firmer glumes. The basal leaves of S. graminifolius are usually relatively long and grass-like, so that they are almost as long or longer than the flowering stems.
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Most have distinct oil glands dotted in the leaves, making the leaves aromatic, especially when crushed. Melaleuca flowers are usually arranged in spikes or heads. Within the head or spike, the flowers are often in groups of two or three, each flower or group having a papery bract at its base. Five sepals occur, although these are sometimes fused into a ring of tissue and five petals which are usually small, not showy, and fall off as the flower opens or soon after.
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Melaleuca preissiana is a shrub or small tree sometimes growing to tall with papery bark or sometimes pale-coloured, hard bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, flat, narrow elliptic to narrow egg-shaped with the end tapering to a point. The flowers are usually white, but sometimes a shade of cream or yellow. They are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes in the upper leaf axils.
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The flowers are extremely variable in size — from less than 1 cm, to almost 20 cm in diameter, depending on the species. Flowers appear in large numbers, always near the tops of the stems. Those of larger-flowered species (such as Hoodia gordonii) are often a papery pink-tan colour, plate-shaped, with an unpleasant smell to attract their fly pollinators. The smaller, darker flowers of some species have a far stronger and more unpleasant smell than the larger flowers.
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Gnetum africanum is traditionally a wild vine and is considered to be a wild vegetable. It is a perennial that grows approximately 10 metres long, with thick papery-like leaves growing in groups of three. The leaves may grow approximately 8 cm long, and at maturity the vine will produce small cone-like reproductive structures. The seeds of the vine resemble a fleshy fruit, sized 10–15 mm × 4–8 mm, and are red-orange in colour when fully ripe.
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The two bracteoles around each flower are long, wide, thin and papery and fall off as the flower matures. The petals are egg-shaped, white long and enclose the 10 stamens, staminodes and the lower part of the style. The style which protrudes from the rest of the flower is long and has a band of hairs near its tip. Flowering occurs between August and November and is followed by the fruit which is a non-fleshy nut containing a seed long.
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Catananche lutea, is a woolly annual plant, assigned to the daisy family, with most leaves in a basal rosette, and some smaller leaves on the stems at the base of the branches. Seated horizontal flowerheads develop early on under the rosette leaves. Later, not or sparingly branching erect stems grow to 8–40 cm high, carrying solitary flowerheads at their tips with a papery involucre whitish to beige, reaching beyond the yellow ligulate florets. Flowers are present between April and June.
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Dillenia alata, commonly known as red beech or golden guinea tree, is a tropical forest tree in the Dilleniaceae family, found in northern Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands. It is a medium-sized tree with reddish-brown papery bark. The leaves are 11–23 mm long and 6–13 mm wide and connected to the stem by a stem-clasping winged petiole. The five-petalled yellow flowers have a cluster of pink or red styles, anthers and staminoides at the centre.
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Melaleuca biconvexa grows to a height of (sometimes to ) and has fibrous to papery bark. Its leaves are arranged in alternating pairs (decussate), long and wide, narrow oval in shape. The leaves are distinctive in having the mid-vein in a groove with either side of the leaf blade curving up wing-like from this vein. The flowers are cream to white, at or near the ends of the branches in heads of 2 to 10 flowers, the heads up to in diameter.
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Cylindropuntia was formerly treated as a subgenus of Opuntia, but have now been separated based on their cylindrical stems (Opuntia species have flattened stems) and the presence of papery epidermal sheaths on the spines (Opuntia has no sheaths). A few species of mat- or clump-forming opuntioid cacti are currently placed in the genus Grusonia. Collectively, opuntias, chollas, and related plants are sometimes called opuntiads. The roughly 35 species of Cylindropuntia are native to the southwestern and south-central United States, Mexico, and the West Indies.
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However, the paper birch grows in profusion in this area, and sheets and panels of its strong, papery bark can be cut and carved from a tree for use. Birchbark boxes played a key role in creating durable packages and utensils for storage and everyday use. Skilled harvesting of the bark, done at the proper season of the year, does not fatally injure the tree. Well-made makakoon were close to waterproof, and could be used to store soluble goods such as maple sugar.
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Papaver nudicaule (syn. P. miyabeanum, P. amurense, and P. macounii), the Iceland poppy, is a boreal flowering plant. Equivalence with Papaver croceum has been contested. Native to subpolar regions of Asia and North America, and the mountains of Central Asia as well as temperate China (but not in Iceland), Iceland poppies are hardy but short-lived perennials, often grown as biennials, that yield large, papery, bowl-shaped, lightly fragrant flowers supported by hairy, one foot, curved stems among feathery blue-green foliage 1-6 inches long.
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Megasporangia are formed into ovules, which are borne on megasporophylls, which are aggregated into strobili on separate plants (all cycads are dioecious). Conifers typically bear their microsporangia on microsporophylls aggregated into papery pollen strobili, and the ovules, are located on modified stem axes forming compound ovuliferous cone scales. Flowering plants contain microsporangia in the anthers of stamens (typically four microsporangia per anther) and megasporangia inside ovules inside ovaries. In all seed plants, spores are produced by meiosis and develop into gametophytes while still inside the sporangium.
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Common snowdropuprightGalanthus nivalis grows to around 7–15 cm tall, flowering between January and April in the northern temperate zone (January–May in the wild). They are perennial, herbaceous plants which grow from bulbs. Each bulb generally produces two linear, or very narrowly lanceolate, greyish-green leaves and an erect, leafless scape (flowering stalk), which bears at the top a pair of bract-like spathe valves joined by a papery membrane. From between them emerges a solitary, pendulous, bell-shaped white flower, held on a slender pedicel.
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The fruit is a globose woody capsule, it is covered in fine white hairs, and varies in colour from orange to brown as it matures. The mature capsule splits in half to expose rows of 8-20 red or orange sticky seeds. Conspicuous dark valves can be seen on the inner face of the mature, open, capsule. The bark is grey to light brown in colour, and varies from a smooth and somewhat scaly in appearance lower down, to a rougher and papery appearance higher up.
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It is an erect, succulent annual herb which grows to up about 60 cm high, and has triangular to ovate leaves which are truncate or cordate at the base and about 5–10 cm long, with entire margins. The stipules form an almost complete sheath around the stem which disintegrates. The flowers are green with a red tinge, and have six perianth segments with the inner three becoming enlarged and papery when fruiting. The hard, red and reticulately veined fruit persist, giving rise to spectacular displays.
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Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as the broad-leaved paperbark, paper bark tea tree, punk tree or niaouli, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It grows as a spreading tree up to tall, with its trunk covered by a white, beige and grey thick papery bark. The grey-green leaves are egg-shaped, and cream or white bottlebrush-like flowers appear from late spring to autumn. It was first formally described in 1797 by the Spanish naturalist Antonio José Cavanilles.
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Fuchsia excorticata, commonly known as tree fuchsia, New Zealand fuchsia and by its Māori name kōtukutuku, is a New Zealand native tree belonging to the family Onagraceae. It is commonly found throughout New Zealand and as far south as the Auckland Islands. It grows from sea level up to about , particularly alongside creeks and rivers. It is easily recognised in its native environment by the characteristic appearance of its bark, which peels spontaneously, hanging in red papery strips to show a pale bark underneath.
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C. pauper produces abundant viable seed, with regeneration success likely to be inhibited during periods of insufficient soil moisture required for seedling survival (; ). Seeds consist of a papery transparent wing with conspicuous midrib (), and may be dispersed by wind, surface run-off, and animals such as ants and emus (). The species also regenerates from basal shoots (). Vegetative recruits tend to have a high survival rate, although the survival of both forms of recruits under rabbit and kangaroo grazing is extremely low, as both are highly palatable ().
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Margins are thick, there is a visible vein running lengthwise and a small gland near the base. The inflorescence is a bright yellow ball 4-6mm in diameter, containing 10-16 flowers on a slim stalk 2.5-10mm long (singly or in pairs), growing out from the base of the phyllodes. The seed pod or legumes are curved and can be flat or twisted, 2-6cm long and 2-4mm wide, turning from green to a dark brown when mature and papery in texture.
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The petal tube and its lobes are light purple, the outer surface of both is mostly covered with long hairs, the inner surface of the lobes is glabrous and the inside of the tube is filled with long, soft hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube and are hairy near their bases. Flowering mainly occurs between August and September and is followed by fruit which are dry, woody, oval-shaped, 4-sided and about long with a hairy, papery covering.
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Both Hymenonema species are herbaceous perennial plants, with short glandular hairs, and a basal rosettes of pinnately segmented leaves that appears greyish due to longer hairs without glands that are pressed to the leaf surfaces. Plants may have one or few solid stems with zero to two branches, carrying few smaller leaves, the lowest pinnately segmented, and the higher increasingly simple, small and narrow. Each branch carries one flowerhead at its tip. The flowerhead consist of several overlapping rows of involucral bracts, with papery margins.
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The fruit below the corolla (called cypsela) is 4½–5 mm long, 1½–3 mm wide, narrowed at the tip, where it carries a collar, with a shaggy appearance due to white hairs. Like in all Asteraceae the calyx has changed and is called pappus. In this case it consists of two circles of rigid, white-yellowish, somewhat papery bristles, that carry small teeth at regular distances along their length, mostly 15–18 mm long, but some of the outer bristles only 2½ mm long.
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Author Peter Doggett describes "I'm Only Sleeping" as "Half acid dream, half latent Lennon laziness personified." As with "Rain", the basic track was recorded at a faster tempo before being subjected to varispeeding. The latter treatment, along with ADT, was also applied to Lennon's vocal as he sought to replicate, in MacDonald's description, a "papery old man's voice". For the guitar solo, Harrison recorded two separate lines: the first with a clean sound, while on the second, he played his Gibson SG through a fuzzbox.
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Melaleuca strobophylla is large shrub or small, spreading tree which grows to a height of with a bushy crown and white, papery bark. The leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, flat but twisted, narrow elliptic in shape and taper to a sharp point. The creamy- white flowers are arranged in spikes at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The spikes are up to in diameter and contain 8 to 23 pairs of flowers.
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It blooms between June and October in its native range producing simple inflorescences that occur singly or in pairs in the phyllode axils on stalks with a length of less than . The cylindrical flower-spikes have a length of packed with bright to pale yellow coloured flowers. Following flowering thinly leathery to firmly papery seed pods form that are straight to strongly twisted and raised over and constricted between each of the seeds. The pods are usually in length and and reasonably brittle when dry.
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Melaleuca acacioides is a tree, usually with white or grey papery bark, sometimes growing as high as . The young growth is covered with rather long, soft hairs. Its leaves are arranged alternately on the stems, and are long and wide, glabrous when mature, narrow oval in shape, sometimes with a small point on the end and with many distinct oil glands. The flowers are white to cream and arranged in spikes, sometimes at the tips of the branches and sometimes in the leaf axils.
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Melaleuca eleuterostachya is a shrub or tree with grey papery or fibrous bark, thin arching branches and which grows to a height of about . The leaves are arranged in alternate pairs (decussate), are narrow lance- shaped or narrow oval to linear, about long and wide. They have hooked leaves but the tip is not sharp. The flowers are cream or white, arranged in short spikes or heads of flowers containing 8 to 20 groups of flowers in threes, the heads up to in diameter.
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The leaves, exstipulate and 2-6 cm in length, alternate and vary in shape between lanceolate, elliptic, and obovate. Flowers tend to be 7.5-8 mm wide, white to cream colored, bisexual, with 5 petals on 5 sepals, and arranged in axillary cyme. The fruits, 1–1.4 cm across, are papery, one- seeded, three-lobed samaras, similar to species of Dodonaea. Wimmeria mexicana mass flowers around July to October, or often after heavy Autumn rain, attracting a large number of insects, particularly bees and flies.
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Unlike any of the other Western Australian Calectasia species, the lower third of this tube is gold-coloured and lined with soft, white-golden hairs. The upper part of the petals spread outwards to form a blue, papery star-like pattern fading to white or occasionally red with age. In the centre of the star are six yellow stamens forming a tube which does not change colour with age. The terminal part of the stamen, the anther, is unusual in the genus in having a short skirt.
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There is much variation in these characters, but they are not ubiquitous: specific morphotypes characterized by leaf anatomy are said to be restricted to specific islands, but this distribution has not yet been formally delimited. Vaccinium reticulatum differs from Vaccinium dentatum and Vaccinium calycinum in several ways. In general, all vegetative and reproductive anatomy tends to be smaller and more compact than the other two species. Foliage tends to be chartaceous (papery) in Vaccinium reticulatum, while is coriaceous (leathery) in Vaccinium dentatum and Vaccinium calycinum.
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Ageing spikes are grey, with old flowers remaining on them, and develop up to 20 large red follicles each. Roughly oval and jutting out prominently from the spike, each follicle is long by wide and high and is covered in dense fur, red-brown initially before aging to grey. It remains closed until opened by bushfire, and contains one or two viable seeds. The seed is long and fairly flattened, and is composed of the seed body proper, measuring long and wide, and a papery wing.
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The large, papery leaves of teak trees are often hairy on the lower surface. Teak wood has a leather-like smell when it is freshly milled and is particularly valued for its durability and water resistance. The wood is used for boat building, exterior construction, veneer, furniture, carving, turnings, and other small wood projects. Tectona grandis is native to south and southeast Asia, mainly Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Sri Lanka, but is naturalised and cultivated in many countries in Africa and the Caribbean.
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In some of the gorges are found remnants of warm-temperate rainforest, the southernmost occurrence of this type of forest in the world. It can survive here as the steep walls of the gorges protect it from the annual drying summer winds and the bushfires that occasionally rage through the area. There are recorded sightings of more than 150 bird species and 25 mammal species in the park. Vegetation in the park includes papery-barked kanooka trees, lilly- pillys, muttonwoods, ferns, mosses, vines, and lianas.
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The outer bract mostly has one keel on its upper surface and the transparent margin is narrow, while the inner bract has two keels and the papery margin is wider. The scentless, trimerous flower itself is dark red, sometimes pink, and has black blotches in a creamy green cup. The tepals that are fused in a tube at their base are inverted egg-shaped with a slightly indented tip 2½–4 cm (1–1.6 in) long. The outer tepals have a light yellow feathered stripes.
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The petals are long and joined at their lower end to form a tube. The petal tube is light purple to mauve on the outside, darker on the petal lobes and whitish inside with faint purple spots. Part of the outside of the petal tube and petal lobes are hairy and the inside of the tube is filled with long, soft hairs. Flowering occurs from March to August and is followed by fruits which are oval-shaped with a papery, light brown covering and long.
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It blooms from August to September and produces yellow flowers. It produces simple inflorescences that occur singly in the axils and have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of containing 22 to 30 flowers. Following flowering it produces glabrous and papery seed pods that have a linera shape and are strongly curved to coiled once or twice. The strongly resinous pods have a length of up to around and a width of The glossy dark brown seeds inside have an oblong shape with a length of .
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It is also shorter than Iris pallida. The stem has glaucous green and ensiform spathes (leaves of the flower bud). They are slightly flushed with purple, and before flowering, they become pale brown, (scarious) membranous, and papery, They are 2.5 cm long, and between wide. It has 2 short branches (or pedicels). The stems (and the branches) hold between 2 and 3 flowers, It can have up to 6 flowers, but normally has 3 flowers, in spring, between April to June, or May, to July.
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Philotheca myoporoides is a species of shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are sessile, oblong to broadly egg-shaped, glandular-warty, papery to leathery, long and wide with a prominent midrib. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to eight, in leaf axils on a peduncle up to long, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are broadly triangular, about long and wide and the petals are white to pink, about long with a prominent keel.
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The stipe (the stalk of the leaf, below the blade) is dark brown, round, and brittle, about long. A few scales similar to those of the rhizome are scattered at its base; narrowed, hairlike scales sometimes continue further up the stipe. The rachis (leaf axis) is straight, and the rachis, costae and costules (axes of leaflets and leafules) are all shiny and chestnut-brown in color. The blade tissue turns brownish- green when dried; it is papery in texture, and both sides lack scales, hairs, or farina.
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The flower heads sit individually on top of a short stalk, rarely up to long, with numerous small bracts, and softly hairy toward the upper end. The involucre is about 6 mm in diameter and consists of three to four rows of straw yellow, overlapping bracts with red-tinged tips. These bracts are narrowly lance-shaped, about wide, hairless except for a fringe along the narrow papery margin and contain resin or oil ducts. The outer ones are about long and the inner long.
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Melaleuca stenostachya is a large shrub or small tree which grows to a height of with white to dark grey, papery or fibrous bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, linear to elliptic in shape, covered with silky hairs, and tapering to a point. The leaves also have 5 to 7 longitudinal veins. The flowers are creamy-white in colour and are arranged in spikes at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, and sometimes in the upper leaf axils.
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Melaleuca sheathiana is a shrub or small tree growing to a height of with papery bark. The leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, narrow spoon shaped, almost circular in cross section and with a rounded or blunt point on the end. The flowers are cream or white, arranged in heads or short spikes with 4 to 11 individual flowers, the spike up to in diameter. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower and there are 9 to 14 stamens per bundle.
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Bryobium dischorense is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb that forms dense clumps with oval shaped pseudobulbs long and wide covered with papery brown bracts when young. Each pseudobulb has a thin, but tough narrow oblong to egg-shaped leaf long and wide. Between four and eight cream-coloured or whitish, cup-shaped flowers with a few red spots, long and wide are arranged on a flowering stem long. The dorsal sepal is long and about wide, the lateral sepals a similar length but wide.
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Angophora is a genus of nine species of trees and shrubs in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. They differ from other eucalypts in having juvenile and adult leaves arranged in opposite pairs, sepals reduced to projections on the edge of the floral cup, four or five overlapping, more or less round petals, and a papery or thin, woody, often strongly ribbed capsule. Species are found between the Atherton Tableland in Queensland and south through New South Wales to eastern Victoria, Australia.
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Melaleuca cornucopiae is a shrub to with grey, papery bark. Its stiff leaves are arranged alternately along the stems and are long, wide, narrow oval to narrow elliptic in shape with a long stalk, a rounded end and 3 to 7 distinct longitudinal veins. The flowers occur on a spike, usually at the end the branches which continue to grow after the flowering period. The flowers open in succession from the bottom end of the spike which contains 10 to 50 groups of flowers in threes.
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The petal tube is pale lilac-coloured to deep purple, sometimes white on the outside and the inside is white with violet spots. The outside of the petal tube and lobes is hairy, the inside of the lobes is glabrous and the inside of the tube is filled with long, soft hairs. The 4 stamens are enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from May to October and is followed by dry, woody, oval-shaped fruits which are long and have a hairy papery covering.
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Pholidota imbricata, commonly known as the common rattlesnake orchid or necklace orchid, is a plant in the orchid family and is a clump-forming epiphyte or lithophyte with crowded pseudobulbs. Each pseudobulb has a single pleated, leathery leaf and up to sixty white, cream-coloured or greenish, cup- shaped flowers in two ranks along a wiry flowering stem. There is a large, papery bract at the base of each flower. This species is native to areas from tropical and subtropical Asia to the southwest Pacific.
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Correa glabra is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of . The leaves are elliptical to sometimes egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, papery to leathery, long and wide with a strong, sweet lemon scent when crushed. The flowers are pendent and usually arranged singly on short side shoots on a pedicel long with linear to lance- shaped bracteoles long. The calyx is long and the corolla is pale green to pale yellow, cylindrical to funnel-shaped and long.
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Melaleuca pentagona is a medium-sized shrub growing to about tall with papery grey or white bark. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stem, mostly long and wide, linear to narrow elliptic in shape and with a groove on the upper surface. The flowers are a shade of pink or purple and arranged in heads at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter and contain 3 to 8 groups of flowers in threes.
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The skulls vary widely across the group but they are all thin and papery and do not have the robust cranial crests and ridges found on the skulls of members of the family Geomyidae. The skull has other peculiarities. There is an extra hole that penetrates the rostrum, distinctive occluded teeth and the masseter muscle, which moves the lower jaw, is set far forward on the snout, an arrangement found in squirrels, beavers, pocket gophers, heteromyids and a few other groups. The dental formula is teeth in total.
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Melaleuca stipitata is a shrub or tree growing to about tall with grey, papery bark and glabrous branches and twigs. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide and leaves that are flat and narrow but otherwise variable in shape. The flowers are white or cream-coloured and are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which sometimes continue to grow after flowering. The spikes are up to in diameter with 3 to 12 groups of flowers in threes and there are often leaves amongst the flower in the spike.
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Melaleuca thapsina is a shrub sometimes growing to tall with papery or fibrous bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, linear in shape and almost circular in cross section with the tip tapering to a sharp point. The flowers are cream coloured to bright yellow and are arranged in heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter with 2 to 13 groups of flowers in threes.
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Melaleuca sapientes is a dense, spreading shrub growing to tall with whitish-grey, papery bark and silvery foliage. Its leaves are arranged alternately, mostly long, wide, linear to very narrow egg-shaped, usually half moon-shaped in cross section and covered with soft, silky hairs. The flowers are a shade of pink or purple, arranged in heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter and contain two to six groups of flowers in threes.
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Melaleuca borealis is a shrub which grows to a height of with papery bark and stems, and leaves that are glabrous except when young. Its leaves are arranged alternately, linear in shape and almost circular in cross-section, long, wide with the end tapering to a point. The flowers are pale yellow or white and are arranged in heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter and contain between 3 and 8 groups of flowers in threes.
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Removed from its calyx, it is bright yellow to orange in color, and sweet when ripe, with a characteristic, mildly tart grape- or tomato-like flavor. A prominent feature is the inflated, papery calyx enclosing each berry. The calyx is accrescent until the fruit is fully grown; at first, it is of normal size, but after the petals fall, it continues to grow until it forms a protective cover around the growing fruit. If the fruit is left inside the intact calyx husks, its shelf life at room temperature is about 30–45 days.
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White onion (Allium cepa, 'sweet onion') is a cultivar of dry onion, that has a pure white papery skin and a sweet, mild white flesh. Similar to red onions, due to the high sugar content, they have a short shelf life, lasting up to 2 days, or if refrigerated, they can last up to a month.Bill Jones This onion is used in Mexican foods or complementing the flavors of other ingredients. The onion can be sautéed to a dark brown color and served to provide a sweet and sour flavor to other foods.
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Borthwickia is a fragrant, evergreen shrub or small tree of high. It has square, light green, later pale yellow branchlets, which are initially covered in dense, short, white hairs, which are lost in the older, cylindrical branches. Leaves are arranged with two on opposite sides of the branchlets, and consist of a usually long leaf stalk and three papery leaflets, each on a stalk of about long. The midveins are raised on the upper surface, flat on the lower surface, where they are also covered in dense white hairs.
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Melaleuca nervosa grows to tall, has erect branches and papery-fibrous bark which may be grey, cream, brown or white. There is variation in the leaf size and shape depending on the subspecies but they are generally long, wide, leathery, covered with fine or curly, silky hairs when young and have 3–7 longitudinal veins. The flowers are arranged in 6 to 20 groups of three in long spikes about long and diameter. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower and in this species there are 3–7 stamens per bundle.
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These bracts are overlapping, lance-shaped, hairless, tawny to greenish in colour with the tip often tinged red. They have a papery margin more or less set with a regular row of hairs. The outer bracts are 1½ mm (0.06 in) long and ½ mm (0.02 in) wide, those in the middle 3 mm (0.12 in) long and 1 mm (0.04 in) wide, and the inner 5 mm long and ½ mm wide. Each head has ten to fifteen female, medium or light purple, rarely white, ray florets of about 1 cm long and 1½ mm wide.
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Melaleuca nodosa is a shrub or small tree, sometimes growing to tall with thick, papery bark. The stiff linear leaves are rather variable in size and shape, but usually linear to almost terete, long and wide, tapering to a sharp tip. The flowers are white to yellow and arranged in dense heads or short spikes on the ends of branches that continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. Each head is up to in diameter and contains up to 20 groups of flowers in threes.
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The bulb is covered by a papery husk which is the remains of the previous year's stalk. Trout lilies grow in colonies, some of which have been dated to be up to 300 years old. The individuals within a colony will often reproduce asexually via a "dropper" or from small bulbs budding off of the main bulb. A dropper is a tubular fleshy stem that grows out from a parent bulb, up toward the surface and then penetrates deep into the soil where another bulb is formed from the tip of the dropper.
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Eucalyptus fitzgeraldii is a tree that typically grows to a height of and has rough, grey, fibrous or flaky bark that is shed in papery flakes. Adult leaves are egg-shaped to more or less round, glossy when fresh, up to long and wide on a petiole up to long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven on a peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels about long. Mature buds have a conical to bell-shaped floral cup long and wide with a conical to hemispherical operculum long and wude.
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Melaleuca elliptica is a shrub with pale grey, papery bark usually growing to no more than high and wide. Its leaves are arranged in alternating pairs (decussate), each pair at right angles to the ones above and below so that there are four rows of leaves along the stems. The leaves are elliptic to egg- shaped with the ends usually rounded, and long, wide with a short stalk. The flowers are arranged in spikes on the sides of the branches, each spike up to in diameter and long and containing 20 to 60 individual flowers.
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Melaleuca linariifolia is a small tree growing to a height of with distinctive and attractive white or creamy white, papery bark and a dense canopy. Its leaves are arranged in alternating pairs (decussate), glabrous except when very young, long, wide, linear to lance-shaped and with a distinct mid-vein. The flowers are white to creamy-white, perfumed and arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. Each spike is up to wide and long and contains 4 to 20 individual flowers.
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Melaleuca decora has brown or whitish papery bark and grows to the height of a small tree, usually to but exceptional specimens may exceed in height. The leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, flat, narrow elliptic in shape and tapering to a point. The flowers are cream-coloured or white, arranged in spikes on the ends of branches that continue to grow after flowering, sometimes on the sides of the branches. The spikes are up to in diameter, long and have between 3 and 30 groups of flowers, usually in threes.
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Melaleuca acutifolia is a shrub or small tree which grows to a height of about and has grey papery bark. The leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, oval to very narrow oval in shape, tapering to a point and often with a few fine hairs on the surface. The flowers are white and in heads on the previous year's shoots, each head containing up to 15 flowers and up to in diameter. The stamens are in five bundles around the flower, each bundle with 10 to 22 stamens.
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Eucalyptus brevistylis is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has fissured, greyish to reddish brown, fibrous to stringy bark that tends to be papery on the outside. The leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are egg-shaped to heart-shaped, long, wide, mid-green on the upper surface, paler below, and always have a petiole. Adult leaves are thin, lance-shaped or slightly curved, long, wide on a petiole long and are a different colour on either side.
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Orchids in the genus Corymborkis are terrestrial, evergreen herbs which often grow in clumps and have short rhizomes and thin, wiry stems. One or more thin, unbranched stems arise from the same rhizome and have many papery, pleated, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves near their top half. A branching flowering stem develops from the upper leaf axils and carry crowded, widely-opening flowers. The flowers are greenish white and usually have thin, spreading sepals and petals which are similar to each other, with the petals slightly wider than the sepals.
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Kunzea robusta is a spreading shrub or tree, typically growing to a height of with rough, stringy or tessellated bark which peels upward in long strips. The leaves are dark green above, paler below, lance-shaped, varying in size from long, from wide and sessile or with a short petiole. The flowers are white and arranged in compact groups of up to thirty, each flower on a pedicel long. The floral cup is conical to top-shaped or cup-shaped, with five papery sepals about long and wide.
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It blooms between August and October producing simple inflorescences that occur singly or in pairs in the axils that have spherical flower-heads with a diameter of and contain 20 to 30 bright yellow flowers. After flowering firmly papery and glabrous seed pods form, they are more or less straight and flat except over the seeds. The pods have a length of and a width of and are slightly resinous with the seeds inside arranged longitudinally. The dark brown seeds within have an oblong shape and a length of .
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Aphloia theiformis is an evergreen shrub or small tree reaching up to high. Young branches are hairless, brown in colour, have stripes along their length and wings extending from the nodes, narrowing downwards and carries alternately set leaves in two rows. The blades of the leaves are elliptic in shape, long, wide, with a pointy or rounded tip, a (broad) wedge-shaped foot and a saw-toothed edge, particularly in from below midlength to the tip. There are some ten pairs of inconspicuous, papery and hairless side veins.
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Melaleuca trichostachya is a small tree, usually less than tall with white or brownish, papery bark. Its leaves are usually arranged in alternating pairs (decussate) so that they make four rows along the stem, but unlike Melaleuca linariifolia the leaves are sometimes arranged alternately. The leaves are long, wide, flat, linear to lance-shaped and tapering to a point. The flowers are white or cream-coloured and are arranged in spikes usually on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering, sometimes in the upper leaf axils.
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The large flower heads are set individually on top sparingly hairy, towards the top more densely hairy, up to long stalks with some small leaves along their lengths. The involucre is about 1 cm in diameter and consists of about four rows of lance-shaped, green, overlapping bracts, often with the margin tinged reddish, hardly papery and ciliate towards the tip. The outer involucral bracts are about long and wide with long hairs, the inner bracts long and 1 mm wide with fewer long hairs. The flower heads never have ray florets.
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Melaleuca serpentina is a shrub growing to tall with hard, papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, more or less flat, narrow elliptical to egg-shaped with the narrow end towards the base and an end tapering to a sharp point. The leaves have a mid-vein but the lateral veins are obscure and there are many distinct oil glands. The flowers are creamy green to yellow and are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches that continue to grow after flowering and also in the leaf axils.
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Exposed trees battered by coastal winds are often twisted into beautiful sculptural shapes resembling large bonsai, and rarely exceed tall. The seeds are eaten by birds and rodents. Like most pine tree species, the seeds have a wing attached to them, but in this species it is papery, breaks off easily, and is entirely non-functional, so this tree is entirely reliant upon animals to disperse its seeds. The scrub jay (Aphelocoma californica) is the most important species when it comes to dispersal of the seeds (on the mainland).
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Mature plant The orange "lanterns" (fruiting calyces) of Physalis alkekengi, lose their bright colour and papery, appearance during the Winter, and, by the Spring, have become delicately beautiful, skeletal networks of beige veins revealing the orange- red berries within. It is a popular ornamental plant, widely cultivated in temperate regions of the world, and very hardy to below . It can be invasive with its wide-spreading root system sending up new shoots some distance from where it was originally planted. In various places around the world, it has escaped from cultivation.
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The splendid pagoda is one of a group of with silvery leaves due to a dense covering of silky hairs, the others being M. arboreus, M. argenteus, M. hottentoticus and M. stokoei. From the other species in this group it can be distinguished by its leaves that almost fully consistently have three or four teeth near their tips. In addition, the involucral bracts that surround the individual flower heads are oblong with a rounded tip, nearly hairless on the outer surface, amber-coloured and thin when fresh (papery and brown in herbarium specimens).
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For pain relief and to treat coughs, colds, bronchitis and other chest infections the plant is burnt and the smoke inhaled. No evidence is available as to how effective imphepho is as a treatment for tuberculosis but the plant's common use in the area and the prevalence of the illness suggest that it may be ineffective. The papery flowers of various species come in a range of colours with bright to dull yellow, white, pink and orange being most common. They are popular in flower arrangements and have been used in potpourri.
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Bulbophyllum radicans, commonly known as the striped pyjama orchid, is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with long, hanging stems with roots near the base and covered with brown, papery bracts which partially hide the pseudobulbs. Each pseudobulb has a single thin leaf. A single small pink, cream-coloured or yellow flower with red or purplish stripes is borne on a thin flowering stem that emerges from the base of the psudobulb. This orchid grows on trees or rocks in or near rainforest in tropical North Queensland.
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They act as a covering, protecting the corm from insects, digging animals, flooding, and water loss. The tunics of some species are thin, dry, and papery, at least in young plants, however, in some families, such as Iridaceae, the tunic of a mature corm can be formidable protection. For example, some of the larger species of Watsonia accumulate thick, rot- resistant tunics over a period of years, producing a structure of tough, reticulated fibre. Other species, such as many in the genus Lapeirousia, have tunics of hard, woody layers.
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A collection of fruit bodies Young specimens of A. hygrometricus have roughly spherical fruit bodies that typically start their development partially embedded in the substrate. A smooth whitish mycelial layer covers the fruit body, and may be partially encrusted with debris. As the fruit body matures, the mycelial layer tears away, and the outer tissue layer, the exoperidium, breaks open in a star-shaped (stellate) pattern to form 4–20 irregular "rays". This simultaneously pushes the fruit body above ground to reveal a round spore case enclosed in a thin papery endoperidium.
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The nests of Nasutitermes walkeri are initially established in the crowns of trees at sites where there is some damage to the timber from fire or decay. A more substantial nest is later constructed higher up, sometimes as high as above the ground. The outside of the nest has a thin, papery surface and the internal structure is also fragile. The termites feed mainly at ground level and they create tubes down the trunk of the tree and then surface tubes or subterranean passages through the soil to reach damp or rotting timbers.
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Polistes canadensis is a large-bodied wasp with a wing length ranging from 17.0 to 24.5 mm. Nests are constructed from plant fibers such as dry grass and dead wood, which, as with other paper wasps, are mixed with saliva to create water-resistant nests made out of papery material. These nests are not covered with an outer envelope and feature hexagonal cells in which eggs are laid and larvae develop. A growing Polistes canadensis colony often engages in fission into several combs, with an average size of 30.8 cells per comb.
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The cast-off shell of a Cicada rests on the papery bark of a Bartlett's rātāAlthough the plant is in cultivation, the majority of cultivated plants come from one tree. Only 13 adult Bartlett's rātā are known to exist in the wild, and most of these are growing on privately owned land. Many of the specimens are isolated from other trees with the result that there is minimal transfer of pollen and few seeds are set. Analyses of the DNA have shown that there is very little genetic variation.
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Melaleuca minutifolia is a shrub or small tree growing to about high with white papery bark and glabrous branches. The leaves are arranged in alternate pairs (decussate), making four rows of leaves along the stems. They are rhombic in shape, long, wide with their upper surface pressed against the stem revealing raised oil glands on their lower (outer) surface. The flowers are white to creamy white and are arranged in short spikes on the ends of the branches which continue to grow after flowering or on their sides.
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Queens are responsible for making the nests. Like most paper wasp nests, the nests of P. major major consist of a gray or papery brown material made by chewing wood fashioned into an open comb shape, containing multiple cells for the queen's brood. A central petiole anchors the nest.First European records of an alien paper wasp: Polistes (Aphanilopterus) major Palisot de Beauvois, 1818 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in northern Spain /LEOPOLDO CASTRO/ANDRÉS ARIAS/ANTONIO TORRALBA-BURRIAL One can locate the nests under the roofs, rims, and window frames of houses.
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The inflorescences fade to grey as they age and the old flowers do not fall off. Up to 80 follicles develop on one spike, and remain closed until opened after a bushfire. Oval-shaped, they measure 1.8–2.8 cm (0.7–1.1 in) in length, by 0.5–0.9 cm (0.2–0.4 in) high, and 0.6–0.8 cm (0.2–0.3 in) wide. They open to release a dark brown oval seed 1.3–1.5 cm (0.5–0.6 in) long, 0.4–0.5 cm (0.2 in) wide with a papery dark 'wing' 1.4–2.4 cm (0.6–1 in) wide.
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The flowers are cream at the base and deep pink to red in the upper half, and are brightest before anthesis and then gradually fade with age. The inflorescences eventually turn grey, the old flowers remaining as up to 25 large woody follicles develop. Oval in shape and covered with fine hair, the follicles can reach long, high, and wide. The obovate seed is long and fairly flattened, and is composed of the wedge-shaped seed body proper, measuring long and 1.6–1.7 cm ( in) wide, and a papery wing.
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Some ants and scale insects have a mutualistic relationship; the ants feed on the honeydew and in return protect the scales. On a tulip tree, ants have been observed building a papery tent over the scales. In other instances, scale insects are carried inside the ant's nest; the ant Acropyga exsanguis takes this to an extreme by transporting a fertilised female mealybug with it on its nuptial flight, so that the nest it founds can be provisioned. This provides a means for the mealybug to be dispersed widely.
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Bulb size of elephant garlic, compared with a €1 coin The mature bulb is broken up into cloves that are large with papery skins, and these are used for both culinary purposes and propagation. Also, much smaller cloves with a hard shell grow on the outside of the bulb. Many gardeners often ignore these, but if they are planted, they produce a nonflowering plant in their first year, which has a solid bulb, essentially a single large clove. In their second year, this single clove then, like a normal bulb, divides into many separate cloves.
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The foliage forms in open sprays with scale-like leaves 1–8 mm long and 1–1.5 mm broad; the leaves are arranged in opposite decussate pairs, with the successive pairs closely then distantly spaced, so forming apparent whorls of four. The cones are 10–15 mm long, green ripening brown in about 8 months from pollination, and have four thick scales arranged in two opposite pairs. The seeds are 5–7 mm long and 2 mm broad, with a 3–4 mm broad papery wing on each side.
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A roasted cocoa bean, the papery skin rubbed loose Press cake of cocoa paste Cocoa contains various phytochemicals, such as flavanols (including epicatechin), procyanidins, and other flavanoids, which are under preliminary research for their possible cardiovascular effects. The highest levels of cocoa flavanols are found in raw cocoa and to a lesser extent, dark chocolate, since flavonoids degrade during cooking used to make chocolate. Cocoa also contains the stimulant compounds theobromine and caffeine. The beans contain between 0.1% and 0.7% caffeine, whereas dry coffee beans are about 1.2% caffeine.
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The evergreen phyllodes have an elliptic to broadly elliptic shape and are straight to slightly curved with a length of and a width of and have three to four prominent veins. It usually flowers in the spring and produces inflorescences that appear singly on the raceme axis. The spherical flower- heads have a diameter of and contain 15 to 30 pale yellow to cream-coloured flowers. The firmly papery to thinly leathery seed pods that form after flowering are straight or curved and flat but can be constricted between the seeds.
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Melaleuca protrusa is a shrub growing to a height of with papery bark at the base of the main stem and glabrous branchlets. The leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, linear in shape, elliptic in cross section and with a short, bent hook on the end. The flowers are cream to yellow and are arranged in heads at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes on the sides of branches. The heads are in diameter and contain 10 to 16 groups of flowers in threes.
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Of this association, a single foundress establishes a dominance hierarchy, with the dominant foundress laying the majority of the eggs. Meanwhile, the others construct the nest, from plant fibers, combined with oral secretions, to make a papery pulp that is formed into cells. The nest is attached to an overhang by a stalk-like pedicel, composed of oral secretions including proteins rich in glycine, proline, alanine, and serine, common components of the silks of other insects. Another minor component is N-acetylglucosamine, which is probably bound to the pedicel protein.
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When these are abundant during the winter, the colony does not contract to such a great extent as when the season is harsh. Observations inside nests showed that the workers, queen, alates and brood took up stations on the fibrous roots which formed a sort of scaffolding in their nests. The size of the nest varied with the size of the root system of the plant above. During the summer, above some of the nests, workers chewed bits of plant material to produce a papery felt or thatch.
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The bark peels off in papery flakes, with a purplish to golden brown hue. The sharp, green needle-like leaves are stiff and leathery, 2 cm long. The cones are highly modified with 2-4 fused, fleshy berry-like juicy scales, bright red when mature, bearing one (rarely two) rounded seeds at the apex of the scales. In a classic example species-pair of the Antarctic flora, it is very closely related to Podocarpus totara from New Zealand, to the extent that if planted together, they are very difficult to distinguish.
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Melaleuca striata is a spreading shrub usually no more than tall with papery grey or white bark. The leaves are arranged alternately along the stem, mostly long, wide, linear to narrow elliptic in shape, and with three prominent, parallel longitudinal veins. The flowers are a shade of pink or mauve, and arranged in heads at the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter, long and contain up to four groups of flowers in threes.
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Leptospermum trinervium is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of and has papery bark that is shed in thin, flaking strips. The leaves are narrow elliptical to broadly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, the tip usually blunt and the base tapering to a short petiole. The flowers are white, about wide and arranged singly or in pairs on the ends of short side shoots. The floral cup is densely covered with silky hairs, about long tapering to a pedicel of variable length.
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Leptospermum grandifolium is a shrub that grows to a height of about or a tree up to tall with smooth bark that is shed in papery strips or flakes. It has narrow egg-shaped to elliptical leaves long and wide, often with a felty surface, with a small, sharp pointed tip and a base tapering to a short petiole. The flowers are arranged singly on short side shoots on the ends of leafy branchlets and are or more in diameter. There are broad, pale brownish bracts and bracteoles at the base of the flower bud.
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The species resides under the loose papery bark of melaleuca, amongst dense foliage, or in tree hollows. The distribution range is associated with wet forest habitat between Cape York and the north of New South Wales, rainforest and vegetation at permanent water are the typical environs. Drier areas nearby the wetter habitat is also used by the species, in woodland and forests that provide suitable food or refuge. They are often seen hunting at the edge of forests, using their characteristic foraging techniques; a well known population occurs at the Chillagoe-Mungana Caves National Park.
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Tajín chili powder The root's exterior is yellow and papery, while its inside is creamy white with a crisp texture that resembles raw potato or pear. The flavor is sweet and starchy, reminiscent of some apples or raw green beans, and it is usually eaten raw, sometimes with salt, lemon, or lime juice, alguashte, and chili powder. It is also cooked in soups and stir-fried dishes. Jícama is often paired with chilli powder, cilantro, ginger, lemon, lime, orange, red onion, salsa, sesame oil, grilled fish, and soy sauce.
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Melaleuca citrina is a shrub growing to tall but more usually in the range high and wide. It has hard, fibrous or papery bark and its young growth is usually covered with soft, silky hairs. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, hard, flat, narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end near the base and with a pointed but not sharp end. There are between 7 and 26 branching veins clearly visible on both sides of the leaves and a large number of distinct oil glands visible on both surfaces of the leaves.
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Cycas balansae is a species of cycad in the genus Cycas, native to southwestern China (southeast Guangxi) and adjacent northern Vietnam (near Hanoi), where it occurs in dense mountain rainforests. It has a subterranean, unbranched stem 12–20 cm in diameter, bearing 4-9 leaves, each leaf 1.2-2.6 m long, pinnate with 90-160 leaflets, and armed with spines along the petiole. The leaflets are papery in texture, and angled forward at 80 degrees. The female cones are closed type, 8–12 cm long sporophylls with 2-4 ovules.
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Melaleuca concreta is an erect shrub with papery bark growing to high and wide but sometimes as high as . The leaves, which are covered with silky hairs when young, are long (more usually ) and wide, and oval in cross section. Their shape is linear or very narrow lance-shaped, with a pointed, although not prickly end and a prominent mid-vein. The flowers are arranged in heads across on the ends of the branches and in leaf axils, each head containing 4 to 18 groups of three flowers.
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The petal tube is white, sometimes with a pink or lilac-coloured tinge and there are lilac to purple spots inside the tube and on the lower petal lobe. The petal tube and lobes are mostly glabrous except for the middle part of the lower lobe and inside the tube, both of which have long, soft hairs. The 4 stamens are fully enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from June to September and the fruit which follow are dry, oval to cone-shaped, ribbed, long and have a papery covering.
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Correa eburnea is a shrub that typically grows to a height of and has branchlets covered with rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are papery, egg-shaped to elliptical, mostly long on a short petiole and covered with minute white hairs on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to five in leaf axils, each flower nodding on a pedicel about long with two round to heart-shaped bracts long at the base of the flowers. The calyx is cup-shaped, long including the four triangular teeth about long.
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Melaleuca pancheri grows to a height of about , has a rounded canopy and thick, papery bark. Its younger branchlets are covered with dense, woolly hairs and the young leaves are hairy and silvery-grey at first but become glabrous as they mature. The leaves are long, wide, have short stalks, are narrow egg-shaped tapering towards the base and rounded at the tips. The flowers are a shade of yellow to yellow-green and are arranged in spherical heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering.
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Lamorlee, Dhérin and the composer recorded the work for French Columbia in 1928 – one of Poulenc's earliest records. When it was reissued on CD, Robert Layton wrote in Gramophone, "The special tang of the two French wind players in the engaging Trio of 1926 (recorded two years later) is inimitable; a rather thin, papery sound but like everything here very characterful".Layton, Robert. "Honegger/Poulenc Perform their own works", Gramophone, June 1994 A later recording (1957) with the composer as pianist features Pierre Pierlot (oboe) and Maurice Allard (bassoon).
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These bracts are all equal in length at about 3 mm (0.14 in) long, the outer lance-shaped, about wide, the inner inverted egg-shaped, about 1 mm wide, with a papery edge, all covered in bristles and glandular hairs. Each flower heads contains about twelve ray florets with a blue strap of about long and 1 mm (0.06 in) wide. These encircle more numerous, yellow disc florets of up to 2 mm (0.1 in) long, those next to the ray florets bisexual and those in the center male.
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The inflorescences are broadly cylinder-shaped, 8–14 cm (3¼–5¾ in) long and 8–9 cm (3¼–3½ in) in diameter, with a tuft of smaller, pinkish, not very upright leaves. It consists of up to fourteen flower head that each contain nine to fourteen individual flowers and sit in the axil of an ordinary flat green leaf. The outer whorl of bracts that encircle the flower heads are bright yellow with red tips, pointy lance-shaped, 1½–4 cm (0.6–1.6 in) long and ½–1¼ cm (0.2–0.5 in) wide, papery in consistency, mostly hairless but sometime with a few silky hairs, the margins towards the tip with a row of silky hairs, and are tightly enveloping the flowers. The inner bracts are narrowly lance-shaped with a pointy tip, sickle-shaped, thinly papery in consistency, 2–4 cm (0.8–1.6 in) long and 4–6 mm (0.12–0.16 in) wide, slightly silky hairy along the margins. The bract subtending the individual flower is line- to awl-shaped, 5–8 mm (0.20–0.32 in) long and about 1 mm (0.04 in) wide, hairless except for a row of minute hairs along the edges. The 4-merous perianth is 3–4 cm (1.2–1.4 in) long and straight.
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Melaleuca hollidayi is a shrub growing to , usually less but often spreading to more than wide and which has papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately, linear in shape, oval in cross section, long, wide with a rounded end and a covering of fine hairs like spider silk. The flowers are a shade of deep pink to purple, arranged in heads on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter and composed of 2 to 9 groups of flowers in threes.
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Rhodanthe manglesii is a herbaceous plant, a native of Western Australia, that was introduced and cultivated in England in 1834 from seeds collected by James Mangles. Common names for this daisy include pink sunray, silver bells, Australian strawflower, timeless rose or Mangles everlasting. The flower head is yellow and surrounded by pink or white florets, this emerges from nodding, silver coloured, papery bracts that form bell-like buds during August to October in its native habitat. The habit is slender and erect, ranging in height from 0.1 to 0.6 metres, and the plant often carpets areas of sandy, clayey or loamy soils.
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This makes the whole perianth curve downwards, so that the upper half makes a 90° angle with the lower half of the perianth tube. The style, which is tightly enclosed in the perianth tube, is forced to also make a right angle about 6 mm (0.24 in) above the ovary. At this phase, all styles are directing downwards, parallel to the stalk of the flower head. At the end of the flowering, the perianth loses it turgor, dries out and becomes papery, and so the styles return to their original orientation during the fruiting stage, spreading out at right angles to the axis.
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The tender leaves have, on occasion, been cooked as a leaf vegetable or pot herb (e.g. in the cuisine of Tanzania), yet the decoction of the leaves has been used as an insecticide to treat head lice; while the juice of the fresh leaves has been used to treat amoebiasis. Unspecified medicinal uses of the leaves have also been recorded in the folk medicine of Brazil and Madagascar. The rather dry, brown berries within the papery calyces have an odour reminiscent of cooking oil and, although described in at least one source as being poisonous, are eaten by the Raji people of Nepal.
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The leaves of Pachypodium bicolor are subsessile, very much stalkless and attached directly at the base of the leaf, and confined to the apices of the branchlets. The leaves can be petiole, having a stalk by which a leaf is attached to a stem, at 0 mm to 2 mm (up to 0.08 in) long; meaning they have a very short stalk to the leave, if at all. Pubescent --hairy--the leaf blade is medium green with a pale green midrib above and a pale green below along with reticulate venation beneath when fresh. When the leaves are dried they are papery.
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The columella is almost straight, subverrucose, and of a reddish yellow.Kiener (1840). General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers; Boston :W.D. Ticknor,1837 (described as Buccinum anglicanum ) The shell is dull brown with fine ridges along the spirals and a papery outer layer that peels off when dead, but in life is usually encrusted by the commensal bryozoan Alcyonidium nodosum which gives a slightly nodular velvety appearance in purplish to orangy brownsBranch, G.M., Branch, M.L, Griffiths, C.L. and Beckley, L.E. (2010).
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Dendrobium victoriae-reginae (Queen Victoria's dendrobium) is a member of the family Orchidaceae endemic to the Philippines.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Dendrobium victoriae-reginae is a small to medium-sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with thin, descending, clumping pseudobulbs that rarely branch and carry many, unsubdivided, pointed papery leaves, and inflorescences that are violet or purple with a darker tip and white center of 3 to 4 centimeters.The Orchids of the Philippines, J.Cootes 2001 It is found in Montane ecoregion of the Philippines growing on moss covered trucks of Lithocarpus species at 1300 to 2700 meters in elevation.
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The bracts in the inner whorl are about 3 mm (0.14 in) long and mm (0.03 in) wide, eventually hairless and have an indistinct papery margin. About twenty five female ray florets have pale violet straps of about 5 mm (0.22 in) long and 1 mm (0.04 in) wide. In the center of the head are many yellow, bisexual disc florets of about long. In the center of the corolla of each disc floret are five anthers merged into a tube, through which the style grows when the floret opens, hoovering up the pollen on its shaft.
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The heads contain both female ray and bisexual and male disc florets (so-called heterogamous capitula). At the base of the head, surrounding and protecting the florets before opening, are two whorls of sepal-like bracts or scales (or phyllaries) that together make up the involucre of about 8 mm (0.32 in) in diameter. The phyllaries are about 7 mm (0.28 in) long, with papery margins. The outer whorl of phyllaries are lance-shaped, about 1½ mm (0.06 in) wide, and set with rough glandular hairs, while the inner phyllaries are narrowly inverted egg-shaped with few glandular hairs.
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The stalk of the flowerhead is pinkish in color, somewhat flattened, with shallow wings, 1–11 cm long, widest at the clasping base, up to 8 mm wide. Usually every rosette carries several slender, felty, pinkish, leafless, erect scapes of up to 13 cm, sometimes swollen beneath the single flower head. Each flowerhead is 1½–5 cm in diameter. The involucre consists of two or three, sometimes four worls of linear to narrowly ovate or inverted egg-shaped bracts, each 4–12 mm long and 1–3 mm wide, with papery margins, covered with many of few hairs.
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Flowers are hermaphroditic, having both male and female organs. The fruit is a three-lobed inflated papery capsule that is 3–6 cm long, of a faint reddish colour, showy, containing several hard, nut-like seeds which are 5–10 mm in diameter with a pink color. The bark is thin and brown. Branches are upright growing, bend down somewhat as the tree grows, they might break due to poor collar formation, pruning is required to build a strong branching structure and a single stem, if wished, and also for the pedestrians and vehicles clearance if necessary.
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Melaleuca pallida is a shrub or tree growing to tall, with fibrous or papery bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, flat or broadly v-shaped, narrow elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrow end towards the base and with a small point at the end. There is a distinct mid-vein, 6-16 indistinct side veins and many distinct oil glands. The flowers are a shade of cream to yellow, occasionally pinkish-red and are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches that continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also on the sides of the branches.
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Silver birch The silver birch typically reaches tall (exceptionally up to ), with a slender trunk usually under diameter. The bark on the trunk and branches is golden-brown at first, but later this turns to white as a result of papery tissue developing on the surface and peeling off in flakes, in a similar manner to the closely related paper birch (B. papyrifera). The bark remains smooth until the tree gets quite large, but in older trees, the bark thickens, becoming irregular, dark, and rugged. Young branches have whitish resin warts and the twigs are slender, hairless, and often pendulous.
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The bottlebrush orchid is widespread and common, growing on trees and sometimes on rocks, in woodland, forest and rainforest margins. It prefers trees which are exposed to sunlight and commonly grows on trees such as Lophostemon suaveolens (swamp turpentine or swamp box) which have loose papery bark. The roots of the orchid penetrate below the bark and form large mats which are well protected beneath the bark. It is found in New Guinea, including on the Bismarck Archipelago, on the Aru Islands, on some Torres Strait Islands and on the Cape York Peninsula as far south as Townsville.
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In newly expanded specimens this layer is covered with a thin layer of crystals and hyphae, sometimes forming a pseudoparenchymatous cup or collar that often peels off in patches, when dry shrunken and hard. The fibrous layer is papery to leathery. The inner side, when free from pseudoparenchymatous remnants, is almost white, in age becoming dirty grayish-white and sometimes greenish due to algae; the outer side is initially whitish, somewhat glossy, but in age becomes grayish-white and dull. The mycelial layer has a whitish inner side and is strongly attached to the litter on its outer side.
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B. pubescens is closely related to, and often confused with, the silver birch (B. pendula). Many North American texts treat the two species as conspecific (and cause confusion by combining the downy birch's alternative vernacular name, white birch, with the scientific name B. pendula of the other species), but they are regarded as distinct species throughout Europe. Downy birch can be distinguished from silver birch with its smooth, downy shoots, which are hairless and warty in silver birch. The bark of the downy birch is a dull greyish white, whereas the silver birch has striking white, papery bark with black fissures.
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Diplolaena drummondii is a small, spreading shrub to high with papery, elliptic to oblong-elliptic leaves long, margins flat, wedge shaped at the base, rounded at the apex on a petiole long. The leaf upper surface is covered sparsely with short, soft hairs, the underside sparsely to moderately covered with star-shaped hairs. The flowerheads about in diameter, the outer green to reddish brown bracts are egg-shaped to narrowly triangular, about long, covered in star-shaped, soft, short hairs. The inner bracts are about long, narrowly oblong, covered in soft, short, star-shaped hairs that taper gradually to a point.
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Soares considers it most similar to Butia microspadix, differing from that species by the spathes being covered in short pubescent hairs that fall off, whereas those of B. microspadix have long and persistent hairs upon their stem. It also grows much faster and is more robust than B. microspadix. In a key to the genus provided in 2014, Noblick contrasts it to B. marmorii, but the spathe in that species is papery, smooth or scaly, and the inflorescence has a much shorter peduncle and rachillae. It grows in the same region as B. eriospatha and B. microspadix.
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Meyers großes Konversationslexikon Alsomitra macrocarpa () or the Javan cucumber is a gourd-bearing liana, belonging to the pumpkin family from the tropical Asian forests of the Malay Archipelago and the Indonesian islands. Alsomitra is a genus of 34 species of vines found in Southeast Asia, Australia and South America. The fruits or pepos are football-sized (about 300mm diameter) and bell-shaped, suspended high in the forest canopy, and are densely packed with large numbers of seeds. Remarkably the seeds have large, papery wings and when ripe they fall from the underside of the fruit and glide long distances.
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Melaleuca leucadendra, commonly known as weeping paperbark, long-leaved paperbark or white paperbark is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is widespread in northern Australia, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and the Torres Strait Islands. It is a tree, sometimes growing to more than with a trunk covered with thick, white, papery bark and weeping thinner branches. It has a long flowering season, can flower at almost any time of the year and is often grown as a tree in parks and on roadsides. It was the first melaleuca to be described and was described from a specimen growing in Indonesia.
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Crocosmia corm, showing solid construction with outer tunic and shoots emerging from the top A corm is a short, vertical, swollen underground plant stem consisting of one or more internodes with at least one growing point, with protective leaves modified into skins or tunics. The thin tunic leaves are dry papery, dead sheaths, formed from the leaves produced the year before. They act as a covering that protects the corm from insects and water loss. Internally a corm is mostly made of starch-containing parenchyma cells above a more-or-less circular basal node that grows roots.
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The outer tissue layer of Calostoma cinnabarinum (shown) is gelatinous. Fruit bodies, technically known as gasterocarps, form spherical spore-bearing heads with a peridium (outer tissue layer) made of two to four clearly defined layers of tissue. The outermost peridial layer is a thick gelatinous or shiny cuticle, which during maturity peels away to reveal the brightly colored peristome that has a star-shaped pore through which spores may escape. The innermost layer of the peridium is papery and membranous, and remains attached to the outer layers only at the apex of the star-shaped apical pore or slit.
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Melaleuca rhaphiophylla is a large shrub or small tree, growing to tall, often multi- stemmed, with a bushy crown and greyish papery bark. Its leaves are soft, arranged alternately, long, wide, linear in shape, circular or oval in cross- section and taper to a hooked point. The flowers are a shade of white to cream, arranged in heads or spikes on the ends of most of the branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The heads are up to in diameter, long and contain 4 to 25 groups of flowers in threes.
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In its native range in the southern hemisphere, Corella eumyota can grow to a length of about and is grey or ivory in colour. The tunics of large individuals are thin, transparent and papery, while smaller individuals, which are a great deal more abundant, are thicker and gelatinous. This species has been introduced into the northern hemisphere and here it is described as being long, semitransparent and white, brown, or orangeish, the siphons often being orange. It is normally recumbent, lying on its right side, roughly oval in shape, but fitting its body to the contours of its surroundings.
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Melaleuca ericifolia, commonly known as swamp paperbark, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and the genus Melaleuca, native to south-eastern Australia. It is a rather variable species and some specimens resemble Melaleuca armillaris but its papery bark and smaller, more prolific flower heads distinguish it from that species. It often grows in swampy areas and the draining and clearing of these has reduced the numbers of the species, especially around Port Philip Bay near Melbourne. It is also similar to Melaleuca pustulata, a Tasmanian endemic, but that species only grows in dry heath.
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Melaleuca quadrifaria grows to the size of a large shrub up to tall usually with dark fibrous bark, sometimes with gey or brown papery bark. Its leaves are small and arranged in alternating pairs at right angles to those above and below (decussate) so that they form four rows along the branches. The leaves are long, wide, narrow oval in shape, half-moon shape in cross-section and tapering to a blunt point or rounded end. The flowers are white or cream and are arranged in small heads or spikes on the sides of the branches.
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Melaleuca tamariscina is a shrub to small tree tall with white to grey, papery bark and pendulous foliage. Its leaves are arranged alternately, long, wide, oval to egg-shaped, half-moon shape in cross section and tapering to a point. The leaves are pressed against the stem and there are indentations in the stem matching the outline of each leaf. The flowers are white, creamy white or mauve and are arranged in spikes on the sides of the branches, each spike containing 5 to 25 groups of flowers in threes and is up to in diameter and long.
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It is found on wooded slopes at elevations of 200–1400 m.Flora of North America v 26 p 256 Allium membranaceumBONAP (Biota of North America Program) floristic synthesis, Allium membranaceumUSDA Plants Profile Allium membranaceum grows from an egg-shaped bulb up to 1.7 cm long which is sometimes associated with a cluster of smaller bulbs. The stem reaches a maximum height near 40 centimeters and there are two or three long, flat leaves about the same length. The inflorescence contains up to 35 flowers with white or pale pink tepals which become papery as they age.
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Calectasia obtusa is an undershrub with stilt roots 30-55 mm long but no rhizome. It grows to a height of about 50 cm with several short side branches. Each leaf blade is glabrous except at the margins, 4.5-8.5 x 0.5-0.9 mm, often pressed against the stem, the ends usually blunt and only rarely tapering to a short, sharp point. The base of the petals (strictly tepals) form a tube 7.7-8.8 mm long, while the outer part of the petals are wine red with blue margins fading to pale blue with age and spreading outwards to form a papery, star-like pattern.
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Miltonia cuneata, the wedge-shaped miltonia, is a species of orchid endemic to southeastern Brazil. Found in Brazil at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters in dense, wet montane forests as a robust, medium sized, creeping, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slightly tapered, slightly flattened pseudobulbs that can be clustered or well spaced and are enveloped basally by 2 to 4 non- foliaceous sheaths and carry 2 to 3, narrow, acute leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on a erect or arching, to 2' [60 cm] long, few to several [5 to 8] flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, papery bracts.
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They differ from the alders (Alnus, other genus in the family) in that the female catkins are not woody and disintegrate at maturity, falling apart to release the seeds, unlike the woody, cone-like female alder catkins. The bark of all birches is characteristically marked with long, horizontal lenticels, and often separates into thin, papery plates, especially upon the paper birch. Distinctive colors give the common names gray, white, black, silver and yellow birch to different species. The buds form early and are full grown by midsummer, all are lateral, no terminal bud is formed; the branch is prolonged by the upper lateral bud.
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It has a hard, thin, almost papery toasted crust and a soft flaky center. In the early days, the dough was stretched thin to make it last, creating the bread's distinctive air pockets and long shape. As they have for over a century, La Segunda and a few other traditional Cuban bread producers lay a long, moist palmetto frond on top of the loaves before baking, creating a shallow trench in the upper crust, producing an effect similar to the slashing or scoring of a European-style loaf. (The frond is removed before eating.) Cuban bread is the necessary base for a "Cuban sandwich" (sometimes called a "sandwich mixto").
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Leionema hillebrandii is a small straggly, perennial shrub to high with smooth greenish-brown to red, thin, terete branchlets sparsely covered with star shaped hairs. The edges of the leaves are rolled under, dark green, silky, heart shaped to wedge-shaped, narrowing at the base or egg-shaped to wedge- shaped or oblong, long, wide with smooth margins. The leaves may be squared with a point or rounded at the apex or acute with two lobes, rounded with a shallow notch, papery, smooth texture or rough with short hard protrusions on the upper surface. The inflorescence is cluster of up to 16 pinkish flowers on a thin pedicel long.
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The flower heads are large and are set individually at the end of the long shoots on stalks of about 4 cm long that carry two to three small bracts, covered in perpendicular bristly hairs. The involucre is about 1½ cm (0.6 in) in diameter and consists of bracts arranged in about four rows. These bracts are large, overlapping, narrowly oblong, obtuse, gland-covered, red at the top, slightly serrated, the outer 3 mm (0.12 in) long and 1 mm (0.04 in) wide with few bristles, the inner 7 mm (0.28 in) long and 1½ mm (0.06 in) wide with a narrow papery edge.
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Pteraster militaris feeds on various species of sponge including the cloud sponge (Aphrocallistes vastus) and the white reticulated sponge (Iophon cheliferum) and also on hydrozoans such as the pink branching hydrocoral (Stylaster norvigicus) and the purple encrusting hydrocoral (Stylantheca). Pteraster militaris is unusual among starfishes in that it broods some of its young. About forty fertilised eggs are retained in the water-filled chamber below its papery outer skin and these develop into juveniles that may reach across before they make their way out through the central pore. Eggs that are too numerous to be brooded are released direct into the sea where they become planktonic larvae.
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It is a tree reaching 6.1 meters in height. Its dark-gray branches are hairless, but its twigs are covered in tawny matted hairs. Its papery, elliptical leaves are 9-19 by 3-6 centimeters, have a tapering tips and bases that are rounded or wedge-shaped. The leaves have minute translucent dots and are initially covered in tawny, matted hair on both sides, but later become hairless on their upper surface. The leaves have 9-11 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs that arch and join one another near the leaf margin. Its petioles are 4-7 millimeters long and covered in tawny, matted hairs.
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Physalis pruinosa is a plant in the genus Physalis in the nightshade family Solanaceae, often referred to as ground cherry or husk tomato. It is a native species in a range extending from northern Mexico through Central America.USDA National Plant Germplasm System 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 toxic to humans due to the presence of solanine and solanidineGround Cherry Ripeness, answers from a Hennepin County Master Gardener, July 13, 2019, the fruit becomes edible (and sweet) once it has ripened to yellow.
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Inedible or rarely eaten parts of the garlic plant include the "skin" covering each clove and root cluster. The papery, protective layers of "skin" over various parts of the plant are generally discarded during preparation for most culinary uses, though in Korea immature whole heads are sometimes prepared with the tender skins intact. The root cluster attached to the basal plate of the bulb is the only part not typically considered palatable in any form. An alternative is to cut the top off the bulb, coat the cloves by dribbling olive oil (or other oil-based seasoning) over them, and roast them in an oven.
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Papery burnupena in False Bay There are at least 12,914 marine species in South Africa, but small bodied species are poorly documented and the abyssal zone is almost completely unexplored. Almost a quarter of South Africa's coast line is protected, excluding deeper water. A third of the marine species are endemic to South Africa (though poor levels of taxonomic research in adjoining countries probably affects the apparent endemism.) The degree of endemism varies considerably among taxa: Bryozoa 64%, Mollusca 56%, Echinodermata 3.6%, Porifera 8.8%, Amphipoda 33%, Isopoda 85%, or Cumacea 71%. Fisheries are one of the major threats to the biodiversity of the Agulhas Bank.
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Melaleuca dissitiflora, commonly known as creek tea–tree, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is native to Australia. It occurs in the drier parts of Queensland, the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. It grows in places like sandy creek beds and rocky gorges but it may have potential as a more productive source of "tea tree" oil than the usual Melaleuca alternifolia. It is closely related and very similar to Melaleuca linophylla with its papery bark, narrow leaves and loose spikes of creamy-white flowers but its flowers are larger, the stamens are longer and there are more stamens per bundle than in that species.
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It would seem almost impossible that plants so small could survive in such an environment, however in those species that inhabit dry and exposed areas, the root is very thick, becoming a taproot and acting like an anchor on the slopes but, more important, as a water storage for the dry periods, capable of significantly retracting into the ground so that the stem is less exposed to the sun; the spines are often changed to adopt a very papery structure, capable of absorbing good quantities of water. Furthermore, the general look is extremely mimetic, thanks to the epidermis colour and the interlacing spines, guaranteeing a certain protection from eventual herbivores.
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All Portias eat eggs of other spiders, including eggs of their own species and of other cursorial spiders, and can extract eggs from cases ranging from the flimsy ones of Pholcus to the tough papery ones of Philoponella. While only P. fimbriata (in Queensland) captures cursorial spiders in their nests, all Portias steal eggs from empty nests of cursorial spiders. Portias' venom is unusually powerful against spiders. When a Portia stabs a small to medium spider (up to the Portia′s weight), including another Portia, the prey usually runs away for about 100 to 200 millimetres, enters convulsions, becomes paralysed after 10 to 30 seconds, and continues convulsing for 10 seconds to 4 minutes.
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All Portia species eat eggs of other spiders, including eggs of their own species and of other cursorial spiders, and can extract eggs from cases ranging from the flimsy ones of Pholcus to the tough papery ones of Philoponella. While only P. fimbriata (in Queensland) captures cursorial spiders in their nests, all Portia species steal eggs from empty nests of cursorial spiders. The venom of Portia species is unusually powerful against spiders. When a Portia stabs a small to medium spider (up to the Portia′s weight), including another Portia, the prey usually runs away for about 100 to 200 millimetres, enters convulsions, becomes paralysed after 10 to 30 seconds, and continues convulsing for 10 seconds to 4 minutes.
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The flowers are pale purple, and star-shaped with six petals, wide, and produced in a dense inflorescence of 10-30 together; before opening, the inflorescence is surrounded by a papery bract. The seeds are produced in a small, three-valved capsule, maturing in summer. The herb flowers from April to May in the southern parts of its habitat zones and in June in the northern parts.Allium schoenoprasum factsheet, from Kemper center for home gardening, retrieved on June 13, 2006, based on the position of the botanical Garden (Missouri)Gräslök, from Den virtuella floran, retrieved on June 13, 2006, The facts mentioned on the site apply to Sweden, which is in the northern part of the habitat zone.
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Nematolepis frondosa is a conical shaped shrub to high with branches usually spreading horizontally, branchlets densely covered in silvery or rusty coloured small scales. The smooth leaves are broadly egg-shaped, long, wide, papery texture, shiny, underside densely covered in silvery scales, margins flat, apex either blunt or slightly notched on a petiole long. The inflorescence is usually a single star-shaped flower or rarely a small group of 2-3, pendulous or curved downwards, individual flowers on a stalk long or cluster on a peduncle long, sepals are free, triangular shaped, long, scaly and barely joined at the base. The white petals overlap, elliptic shaped, long, glabrous and the stamens marginally shorter than the petals.
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Melaleuca halmaturorum is a slow growing shrub or small tree, eventually growing to tall, often with a crooked, straggling, irregular or untidy form and creamy-grey, papery bark. Its leaves are dark green, glabrous and arranged in alternate pairs at right angles to the ones above and below (decussate), so that there are four rows of leaves along the stem. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped, long, wide, with many distinct oil glands on the lower surface and a stalk about long. The flowers are white or cream and arranged in heads, sometimes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering but also in the upper leaf axils.
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A somewhat rare fungus, it appears on the Red Lists of 12 European countries, and in 2004 it was one of 33 species proposed for protection under the Bern Convention by the European Council for Conservation of Fungi. The fruit body, initially shaped like a puffball, is encased within an outer covering that splits open from the top to form rays. These rays curve down to expose an inner papery spore case, which contains the fertile spore- bearing tissue, the gleba. The fungus is unique among the earthstars in having a spore case that is supported by multiple stalks, and is perforated by several small holes suggestive of its common names salt-shaker earthstar and pepperpot.
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The petioles are covered in curly, light-colored hairs that are 0.2-0.3 millimeters long. Its oblong to elliptical, papery to slightly leathery leaves are 3.6-17.5 by 1.2-6.5 centimeters with rounded to shallowly pointed tips (sometimes slightly notched), and rounded to wedge-shaped bases. The upper sides of the leaves are slightly glossy and hairless to sparsely covered in cream-colored hairs that are 0.3 millimeters long. The undersides of the leaves are hairless to densely covered with straight to curly hairs that are 0.2-0.8 millimeters long. The leaves have 6-15 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs at angles of 50°-80° that arch and connect with one another near the leaf margins.
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Once the pod is open and the seeds are revealed, the reason for this spice's common English name becomes apparent as the seeds have a papery skin enclosing them and the bumps of the seeds within this skin is reminiscent of an alligator's back. As mbongo spice, the seeds of alligator pepper are often sold as the grains isolated from the pod and with the outer skin removed. Mbongo spice is most commonly either A. danielli or A. citratum, and has a more floral aroma than A. exscapum (which is the commonest source of the entire pod). It is a common ingredient in West African cuisine, where it imparts both pungency and a spicy aroma to soups and stews.
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He designed one church for the commissioners – St George's, Hanover Square – and collaborated with Hawksmoor on the design of two others, St John Horsleydown in Southwark and St Luke Old Street. At St Alfege's Church in Greenwich, he recased the medieval tower and added a steeple in 1730, the rest of the church having been entirely rebuilt by Hawksmoor for the commissioners in 1712–14. James also designed St. Mary's Church, Rotherhithe in 1714–15 and St Lawrence, Whitchurch near Edgware around the same time. He also re-clad the medieval tower of St Margaret's, Westminster 1735–37 in a 'papery gothick manner' (VCH Middlesex Vol.XIII City of Westminster Part 1 P.144).
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The blue-green leaves of D. pinguicula are covered in a thick waxy cuticle, and contain the deepest stomata of any former Sansevieria species. The leaves are arranged in a rosette and lunate in cross section. The leaves can be 12–30 cm in length, 2.8–3.5 cm thick, and are tipped with a single sharp spine. A wide channel runs the full length of each leaf and has reddish-brown margins edged with tough, papery white cuticle The underside of each leaf is smooth when water is plentiful but develops deep longitudinal grooves in drier conditions as the plant draws upon the water stored in its leaves, allowing it to survive in one of the most arid regions of Kenya.
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They feed on copepods, arthropod larvae and other zooplankton, eventually settling on the ocean floor and developing directly into adults with no distinct metamorphoses that are present in other groups of mollusc larvae. Octopus species that produce larger eggs – including the southern blue-ringed, Caribbean reef, California two-spot, Eledone moschata and deep sea octopuses – do not have a paralarval stage, but hatch as benthic animals similar to the adults. 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 floating in mid-ocean. In this she broods the young, and it also serves as a buoyancy aid allowing her to adjust her depth.
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Spondias pinnata is a deciduous tree, 10–15 m tall (sometimes up to 25 m in height); branchlets yellowish brown and glabrous. The leaves are large, with pairs of leaflets (see illustration) on petioles that are 100–150 mm and glabrous; leaf blades 300–400 mm, imparipinnately compound with 5-11 opposite leaflets; leaflet petiolule 3–5 mm; leaflet blade ovate-oblong to elliptic- oblong, 70-120 × 40–50 mm, papery, glabrous on both sides, with margins that are serrate or entire; the apex is acuminate, lateral veins 12-25 pairs. The inflorescence is paniculate, terminal, 250–350 mm and glabrous, with basal first order branches 100–150 mm. The flowers are mostly sessile and small, white and glabrous; calyx lobes are triangular, approx.
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The terminal branches of the stem are up to 20 cm long and mostly do not carry bracts. Two types of flowerhead (or capitula) occur: early – probably cleistogamous – subterranean flowerheads at the base under the rosette leaves, which have between one and three florets, and capitula on the stems, which have many florets. The papery whitish or beige bracts, sometimes with a dark midvein or base, surround each flowerhead and form a bell-shaped involucre of 1½–3 cm long, and ¾–1½ cm in diameter. The involucral bracts on the outside are egg- shaped, 4–5 mm long and about 2½ mm wide, while the inner ones are more narrow, 9–20 mm long and 3–6 mm wide, with a pointy or tapering tip.
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The flower heads are 3½ cm (1.4 in) long and consist of three to six flowers, and are subtended by an ordinary green leaf. The outer whorl of bracts that encircle the flower heads are green and leafy in texture, line- to lance-shaped, 1½–2 cm (0.6–0.8 in) long and 2–4 mm (0.08–0.16 in) wide. The bracts on the inside of the head are papery in consistency and carry some silky hairs on the outer surface, are narrowly lance-shaped to elliptic lance-shaped with a sharply pointed tip, 2–3 cm (0.8–1.2 in) long and 4–10 mm (0.16–0.40 in) wide. The bract that subtends the individual flower is line-shaped or narrowly lance-shaped, about 1 cm (0.4 in) long and covered in dense silky hairs.
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Upright shrub to small tree 3 – 8m in height with a definite main stem up to 400mm in diameter, crown uneven and spreading. Bark black to dark brown with net-like fissures when mature. Leaves linear-elliptic to linear-falcate, narrow to broadly elliptic, narrow to broadly invert lanceolate, occasionally falcate; 70 – 250mm in length, 4 – 45mm wide, tips blunt to acuminate; smooth, leathery to thin and papery, light green to glaucous green, have a tendency to clump in each year's growth. Flowers carried at the end of leafy twigs 4 – 12mm in diameter, usually singly but up to 4 heads may be grouped at the tip; globose to egg-shaped, broad and shallow when fully open, 45 – 80mm in diameter, base broad convex to flat, 20 – 30mm in diameter.
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Rarely the flower stalk branches in the upper two-thirds. The between thirty two and forty six overlapping bracts, arranged in four whorls, that jointly surround the florets in the same head, form a broadly bell-shaped involucre that is 1–1 cm (– in) high and 2–3 cm (–1 in) in diameter. Those in the outermost whorl are purplish, densely woolly, line-shaped to very narrowly egg-shaped, oval or inverted egg-shaped, 7–8 mm (0.28–0.34 in) long and 1½–2¾ mm (0.06–0.11 in) wide, with a pointy tip, with a fringe of equally long and regularly spaced hairs. In the inner whorl, bracts are line-shaped, long and mm wide, eventually hairless and straw-coloured at the base, and woolly and purplish towards the pointy tip, with a papery margin and long hairs along the edges.
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The corolla is ochroleucous (whitish), tinged or veined with dull lilac or purple; banner 4¾–6 mm, moderately recurved (45–85°); wings nearly as long; very obtuse keel, 3½–4 mm. The pods are small, sessile, puberulent to strigose, spreading to declined, often humistrate, in profile ovoid-oblong, straight or a trifle incurved, obtuse at base, abruptly acute at apex to short-mucronate, thickened, incompletely to fully bilocular (2-celled), cordate in cross-section, trigonous or compressed-triquetrous, the lateral faces flat, the dorsal (upper or adaxial) face narrower and sulcate (grooved), carinate by the ventral suture, the dorsal suture shallowly to deeply sulcate; thin, papery, green to stramineous (brownish) valves strigulose, 4–7 mm long, 1½ -2½ mm in diameter, deciduous from receptacle, dehiscence primarily basal and occurs after falling. The ovary is strigulose and contains a few seeds (ovules 4–8).
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Celosia floribunda is a smallish tree or shrub with greyish- green striated upper branches which are smooth below the inflorescence. The leaves grow in lines and are very variable in size and shape with the width varying from 0.5 cm to 11 cm and the length from shape being oblong subhastate or triangularly oval tapering to a point, wedge shaped or rounded at the base with a prominent network of veins with a rough pubescent underside and hairless above. The petioles are 8–40 mm long and frequently have a thin flange of tissue along their length. The abundant flower are sessile and arranged in long, slender loose spikes which are aggregated in dense panicles up to 30 cm in length, the sepals of the flowers are 2 mm long, papery white or straw coloured with faint venation and include 5 stamens, The stigma are round and brown in colour.
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It is a perennial deciduous shrub that grows in grows in open areas , forests, arrow bamboo grove, or cuttings with good light transmission. The plant height is about 1 meter and there are three small thorns on the stem. Leaves 8–10 together, papery narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, leaf about 1.5–2.5 cm in length, and 0.5–1 cm in width. The leaf margins are sparsely sharply serrate, and the leaves on both sides are of the same color and hairless, but sometimes the lower half of the leaves will be pale green with obvious veins. Yellow long elliptic flowers, 3-6 bunches clustered in leaf axils, short panicles; pedicels 2.5-3 cm long; outer sepals long-ovate, about 3.5 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, and inner sepals 6 cm long , 3 cm wide; petals are elliptic, 5-6 cm long, 3-3.5 cm wide; ovules approximately 4-9.
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A herb, 60 cm high, with a creeping rooting base. Stem erect, somewhat fleshy, subflexuous, pubescent to tomentose in the upper portion, up to 5 cm thick in the lower portion. Leaves papery when dry, obovate-elliptic to elliptic, shortly acuminate, narrowing to an obtuse base, margin entire or wavy, 14–18 cm long, 5–8 cm wide, glabrous, paler green beneath; lateral nerves 8–10 on each side, curving upwards and uniting within the margin, prominent beneath; petiole more or less pubescent, about 1.2 cm or less in length. Stipules subulate, 5–6 cm or less in length, generally falling before the leaves. Inflorescence solitary in the upper leaf-axils; stalk 1.2– 2 cm long, puberulous; receptacle flattened or somewhat convex, orbicular, 2.5–4.5 cm in diameter, including the broad membranous margin (7–10 cm wide), which is prolonged into numerous (about 15) very unequal bract-arms, a few from 1.2– 2 cm long, the remainder short, from 2.5–7.5 cm long.
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Zephyranthes candida, with common names that include autumn zephyrlily, white windflower, white rain lily, and Peruvian swamp lily, is a species of rain lily native to South America including Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil. The species is widely cultivated as an ornamental and reportedly naturalized in many places (South Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Zimbabwe, Seychelles, central and southern China, Korea, Nansei-shoto (Ryukyu Islands), Bhutan, Solomon Islands, Queensland, Nauru, Tonga, Society Islands, Mariana Islands, southeastern United States (from Texas to North Carolina), the Lesser Antilles, and Peru).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesBiota of North American Program Leaves are a deep glossy green and measure 3 mm wide. Flowers, which bud late in August (when propagated in the Northern Hemisphere) at first resemble a new leaf, but emerge from their papery sheaves to a stunning whiteness; they are erect in perianth white and sometimes pinkish abaxially. The leaf-like bract is 1.8 to 4 cm.
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Catamixis baccharoides is a shrub of ¾–1¾ m (2½–5¾ ft) high, with straight, shyly branching stems, which are circular in cross-section, initially covered in silky hairs pressed to the surface, but later becoming hairless, carrying alternately set leaves close together, which leave distinct marks after being shed. The leaves are leathery and hairless, 3½—8 cm (1.4–3.2 in) long and 1½—3½ cm (0.6–1.4 in) wide, spoon-shaped, the base tapering into the stalk, while the margin is somewhat wavy, with distanced rounded teeth particularly in the upper half. The flower heads are set in corymbs at the end of the branches or in the leaf axils. Each flower head consists of an involucre, high, with several whorls of lanceolate bracts narrowing into the tip, with papery edges, and contains mostly five, sometimes four or six, hermaphrodite creamy white ligulate florets of 3¾ cm (1½ in), ending in five shallow, but irregular lobes.
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The involucre is broadly bell-shaped, long and usually , exceptionally up to in diameter. The outer bracts are narrowly oval in shape, mostly (but up to 11 mm) long and 1–2 mm (full range 1–3 mm) wide, with pointy tips and a purplish, woolly fringed margin and the surface with few woolly and glandular hairs. The inner whorl of bracts are very narrowly inverted egg-shaped to oblong, usually , rarely up to long and 1–2 mm (0.07–0.08 in) wide with the tip tapering to a point, a papery margin, purple in upper part, long woolly fringed and the surface almost hairless. Each flower head has about twenty female ray florets, with line-shaped, pink, bright violet or whitish straps of 9–11 sometimes up to 30 mm long, mostly with three (sometimes five or seven) veins, with three teeth at the tip, and the tube at its base with many glandular hairs.
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From each rosette, usually one to three rigid, erect, dark reddish brown, ribbed, occasionally loosely woolly, sparsely glandular and slightly broadened flower stalks of long emerge, with one to three bracts that are increasingly smaller further up, which branch about halfway, are white woolly just below the mostly two, rarely one or three flower heads. The bracts that jointly surround the florets in the same head form a broadly bell-shaped to cup-shaped involucre of about hig and 1–1 cm in diameter. There are between twenty and twenty four overlapping bracts arranged in three to four whorls, occasionally with white woolly hairs and some glands on the surface, each of which is tinged dark red-violet or purplish but green in the middle, narrowly oval to narrowly inverted egg-shaped, with papery margins set with a dense, regular row of equally long hairs. The bracts in the outermost whorl are 5–7 mm (0.22–0.28 in) long and wide.
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The flowers open in a spiral. The flower heads are initially egg-shaped, later more flattened, 10–12 cm (4.0–4.8 in) across, almost seated or with a stalk of at most 1½ cm (0.6 in) long. The common base of the flowers in the same head are narrowly cone-shaped with a pointy tip, about 4 cm (1.6 in) long and 1 cm (0.4 in) across its base. The bracts subtending the flower head are pointy oval in shape, 1–1½ cm (0.4–0.6 in) long and 5–8 mm (0.20–0.32 in) wide, cartillaginous near its base and papery towards the tip, with a regular row of short equal length hairs along its edges and a tuft of longer, stiff and straight hairs at the tip. The bracts subtending the individual flowers are about 2 cm (0.8 in) long and ½ cm (0.2 in) wide, pointy lance-shaped with a slightly recurved tip, very thickly woolly at the base and covered with fine silky hair further up. The 4-merous perianth is 4½–5 cm long and pale greenish yellow in colour.
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Paranomus abrotanifolius is a richly branching shrub that grows up to high, with branches covered with soft, weak, thin and clearly separated hairs (or pilose), alternately set with leaves that are all alike (unlike in some other Paranomus species), long, twice pinnately divided in the top half, soon losing the soft hairs, ending in slender segments that are circular in cross section with a stump tip and up to 1¼ cm (½ in) long. The flowers are grouped with four together in heads, and the heads themselves in dense spikes of about 6⅓ cm (2½ in) long and 1¼ cm (½ in) in diameter, and the spikes are on their own or with a few together at the tip of the branches. The stem of each spike is covered in felty hairs. The narrow, awl-shaped, densely felty bract that subtends each group of four flowers is about 8½ mm (⅓ in) long, while the almost papery bract supporting the individual flower is covered in dense long felty hairs on the outside, about 5 mm (0.2 in) long and 2½ mm (0.1 in) wide, oval in shape, with a gradually pointed tip.
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When the flowers open, the styles grow rapidly, first breaking through the perianth claws and curve away from the center of the head, until the pollen presenter also ruptures the limbs at the top of the perianth. The common base has a pointy, narrow cone- shape, is 5–5½ cm (2.0–2.2 in) long and 1–1½ cm (0.4–0.6 in) across. The bracts subtending the flower head are pointy oval in shape, 1–1½ cm (0.4–0.6 in) long and about 7 mm (0.28 in) wide, tightly pressed against the common base and overlapping, thin and papery imbricate, the outer surface initially covered in powdery hairs that soon wear off, and with a regular row of equal length hairs along its edge. The bract subtending the individual flower is pointy to pointed lance-shaped, enveloping the perianth at its foot, with the margins folded inwards, about 2 cm (0.8 in) long and 8–10 mm (0.32–0.40 in) wide, thickly covered in woolly hairs at its foot, with a regular row of equal length hairs along the edges and a tuft of tough straight hairs at the tip. The 4-merous perianth is about 5 cm (2 in) and golden yellow in colour.
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The oval-leaf pincushion is a slender, stiffly upright and very sparsely branching evergreen shrublet mostly 1–1½ m, occasionally up to 2 m (6 ft) high, with a single basal stem. The flowering stems are slender, 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) in diameter, densely set with soft hairs. The leaves are small for a Leucospermum species, rounded egg-shaped to oval with entire margins, 1–2½ cm (0.4–1.0 in) long and ½–1 cm (0.2–0.4 in) wide, densely overlapping, covered with fine silky hairs. The flower heads are globe-shaped, 1½–2 cm (0.6-0.8 in) in diameter, without a stalk, usually crowded with two to eight together near the end of the stems. The common base of the flowers in the same head is flat and 4–5 mm in diameter. The bracts subtending the flower head are arranged in three or four whorls, each broadly lance-shaped to oval, with a pointy or blunt tip, 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long and 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) wide, papery in consistency and with a thin tuft of long straight hair at its tip, with a regular row of straight hairs along the margin but otherwise without hairs.
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L. bolusii is an evergreen, upright to spreading, rounded shrublet of up to 1½ m (5 ft) in diameter that grows from a single main stem. The flowering branches are upright, slender, 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) in diameter and covered in felty hairs. The leaves that may have some powdery hair when young, lack a stalk, are slightly overlapping, more or less oriented upright, oval to elliptic in shape, 2½–4½ cm (1.0–1.8 in) long, ¾–1½ cm (0.3–0.6 in) wide, with a pointy to blunt, bony tip, usually an entire margin, but sometimes with two or three bony teeth. The globe-shaped flower heads with a flattened top about 2 cm (0.8 in) in diameter, are set on a woolly stalk of about 1 cm (0.4 in) long and 2 mm (0.08 in) in diameter, and occur in groups of up to eight near the tip of the branches. The common base of the flowers in the same head is flat and 5–7 mm (0.20-0.28 in) wide and is subtended by soft and papery, red to carmine, oval bracts with a pointy tip of 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and 2 mm (0.08 in) wide, becoming hairless but with a regular row of short hairs along the margins, set in about three overlapping whorls creating a cup-shaped involucre.
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