Sentence examples for distinctive leaves from inspiring English sources

It has very distinctive leaves that look like they've been cut with pinking shears [Australian oven's wattle, Acacia pravissima].

Acacias' distinctive leaves take the form of small finely divided leaflets that give the leafstalk a feathery or fernlike (i.e., pinnate) appearance.

Known for their showy flowers and distinctive leaves, the genus consists of two species, the Chinese tulip tree (L. chinense), native to China and Vietnam, and the American tulip tree (L. tulipifera), found throughout eastern North America.

You can also tell maples by their large, distinctive leaves.

Native to the Americas, the tobacco plant bears distinctive large leaves that are a particularly concentrated source of nicotine.

Species within this family are herbaceous herbs or climbers with distinctive resupinate leaves and flowers clustered in umbels.

Bamboo Two bamboos are particularly bad: Pseudosasa japonica (arrow bamboo) and Sasa palmata (palm bamboo), both tough, hardy plants with distinctive large leaves.

In those steep woods blossom on isolated cherries appears ghostly, and here too beech with its distinctive, pale, leaves shines out from the viridescence of other trees.

One was duck with Thai basil, the tender, somewhat lean morsels served alongside the distinctive green leaves and stir-fry of green beans, squash, broccoli and a carrot slice or two for color.

The mesa oak--also known as the Engelmann or Pasadena oak--is a broad-canopied tree with distinctive purplish leaves and long, fat acorns.

This produced the mutant's distinctive crinkly leaves.