The greenish yellow-red plants that line it are big and bushy with prickly leaves, and as I soon saw, serve as food for the lanky giraffes that ambled past our car, stopping to peer in at us.
When Brian started working at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich in 1972, he was deeply disappointed with the Broads' murky greenish-brown water, lack of plants, and their eroded, featureless banks.
Sowed early in the last century to accompany the Robert Moses-inspired roadway, the plants have grown into a greenish wall to shroud this barrier island and its mysteries.
They bear flowers that are greenish white to brownish purple and are planted as ornamentals.
In the leaf axils of the plants are clusters of white or greenish white flowers, which are followed by red berries.
Symptoms were dark greenish, water-soaked spots which often girdle the stem, causing plants to wilt and die.
The plant is cartilaginous, varying in colour from a greenish yellow to a dark purple; when sun-dried and bleached it has a yellowish, translucent, hornlike aspect and consistency.
In the third year, plants can produce a single umbel with 6 20 small yellow-greenish flowers and plants generally have 2-3 leaves or prongs.
The light microscopy also shows significant differences in the diameter, structure, and color of these structures: unstressed plants, mycorrhizal or not, have large glands having an inflated shape and are greenish (Fig. 4a, c).
The plants are handsome landscape accents, growing 8 to 10 feet tall, with long narrow leaves, greenish flowers and large seed heads.
