They generally have thin, flat stems for easy absorption of water, and the protective spines prevalent among ground cacti are replaced by hairs or bristles.
Canada bluegrass (P. compressa), originally native to Europe, is a wiry plant with flat stems, similar to Kentucky bluegrass in appearance and use.
Unlike onion chives, garlic chives have flat stems, and the flower buds can be used in cooking as well (typically in stir-frys).
The Commonwealth spoon had a shallow bowl and a plain flat stem.
The feathers of the early juvenile, however, resembled the pennaceous feathers of the late juvenile only at the tip; the other end possessed a flat stem.
— October 5, 1992 ________ From "Lost Art," a memoir At a certain votive stage, I cut out favorite strips and made little long cardboard books of them, held together with those nail-like brass fasteners whose flat stem splits open, it always occurred to me, like a loose-jointed dancer's legs.
— October 5, 1992 From "Lost Art," a memoir At a certain votive stage, I cut out favorite strips and made little long cardboard books of them, held together with those nail-like brass fasteners whose flat stem splits open, it always occurred to me, like a loose-jointed dancer's legs.
The symptoms are curving stem (A); flat stem, shorting stalk (C); narrowing leaves (B) and clustering of multi-inflorescence (D), compared to healthy one (E).
In field, the phytoplasma-infected China ixerises exhibited symptoms of curving and flat stem (Figure 1A, 1C), narrow leaves (Figure 1B) and clustering of multi-inflorescence (Figure 1D).
After two months' observation of field-collected China Ixerises for symptom development in green house, the flat stem did not broaden and the abnormal flowers did not seed.
"Over the course literally of minutes, the cells converted from rather pedestrian, flat, undistinguished stem cells into absolutely typical neuron-looking cells," Dr. Black said, explaining that they looked like bright spheres surrounded by halos.
