Its rosette of light inspired numerous poems.
There was Luna, a guzmania bromeliad with deep burgundy bracts rising like a funnel from the middle of its rosette of strap-like leaves.
Foxgloves are a Chelsea standard, but this year they were usurped by another dreaming spire: the verbascum (aka mullein), with its rosette of felted leaves and blooms that open one after the other up the stem, like a rocket's vapour trail.
The sgn3 mutant in contrast, developed severe chlorosis of its rosette leaf margins, characteristic of strong potassium deficiency (Marschner and Marschner, 2012).
This giant epiphyte thrives in the tops of trees in the Brazilian rain forest, collecting water and organic matter in its tanklike rosette of leaves.
The name for the mutant was chosen due to the adult morphology of its rosette leaves, which had elongated petioles, displayed a proximodistal lengthening, were serrated as well as outwardly curving and epinastic, giving them a cesta-like appearance (the cesta, Spanish for basket, is used in the Basque ball game Pelota as a throwing and catching tool).
Other examples are D. deremensis 'Warneckei,' with its handsome, symmetrical rosette of sword-shaped, milky-green leaves with white stripes; and D. sanderiana, the ribbon plant, a diminutive and slender, highly variegated species that can be grown in water.
This is where the aeonium, with its great rosettes of succulent leaves, will colonise a wall, and not just a wall either - it will attach itself all the way up a tree-trunk.
The higher, sandy margins are dominated by the tiny rock sea-lavender, its dinky rosettes of paddle-shaped leaves barely bigger than a milk bottle cap, while the larger lax-flowered variety is commoner in the wetter areas of the slack.
It consists of a rosette of pale green leaves, prominently veined and it resembles a small lettuce plant.
Verbascum thapsus is a dicotyledonous plant that produces a rosette of leaves in its first year of growth.
