Sentence examples for foliage leaves from inspiring English sources

There is in this instance a retrograde development of floral parts into foliage leaves.

Ovuliferous structures also arise in the axils of bud scales and the foliage leaves of spur branches.

Selaginella species have foliage leaves only a few millimetres long; they may be dark green or bluish and in some species are iridescent.

The reproductive structures are restricted to the spur branches, where they are evident in the spring in the axils of bud scales and foliage leaves.

Foliage (leaves) was not present at the time of sampling, having fallen off in the autumn.

In Amentotaxus, Cephalotaxus and Torreya there is a regular seasonal alternation of foliage leaves and bud-scales, with foliage leaves largely preformed, i.e. initiated in the season before they expand.

Now, with only dark green foliage left on kalimeris, the golden leaves of dwarf blue star create a lovely contrast.

Unlike other diurnal primates, which usually carry their infants with them, ruffed lemur mothers will stash their young by concealing them in the canopy foliage, leaving them to rest and sit quietly for several hours while she forages and performs other activities.

Deer are always looking for salt, salt is in pee, so if you pee on bushes, deer will naturally eat those and there will soon be no more foliage left if hiker after hiker does this.

Flowers only drink through the ends of the stems and not through the sides of the stems, and for this reason buckets should not be filled right up to the top with water, as foliage left on stems below the water line will rot and pollute the water.

He suggested that the most likely cause was the morphological differences between juvenile and mature foliage; juvenile leaves have a thinner cuticle and consequently are likely to lose more water through peristomatal respiration than xerophyllic mature leaves (Walcroft [1994]).