Sentence examples for long foliage from inspiring English sources

Don't let other animals see you if you fear their fighting prowess, instead hide in convenient patches of long foliage which provide ideal breathing space while your danger gauge falls.

Some appear like beautiful, delicate ferns; still others look like prehistoric sprays of long, spiny foliage.

I like to run my fingers through the long Carex foliage.

The most-marked features of the tree are its long tufted foliage and its tall columnar trunk, sometimes 35 metres (115 feet) high, which furnishes one of the most-valued pine timbers.

A longer root form, including oriental radishes, daikon or mooli and winter radishes, grows up to 60 cm long with foliage about 60 cm high with a spread of 45 cm.

E fargesii has long-fingered foliage as jagged as the former is smooth.

Such a role of phytic acid may not be restricted to epiphytes but also be found in other plant groups, in which long-lived foliage accounts for the major proportion of biomass such as leaf-succulent terrestrial genera, e.g. Agave or Aloe.

Confronted with the same soil conditions, the better responsiveness of spruce versus beech to the +CO2 treatment and its relative insensitivity to changes in nutrient ratios and N fertilization could relate to its long-lived foliage and wider tolerance regarding changes in the nutrient supply and broader ecological niche (Härdtle et al. 2004).

The feathery foliage, long stems and abundant spurred blossoms make it perfect for arrangements.

The historically inclined will recognize a resemblance to Perpendicular Gothic, a style that has long evoked spreading foliage overhead.

Ms. Rosenhaus, an antiques dealer, long disdained artificial foliage but finally gave up trying to maintain indoor plants in three sites and now gamely uses silk flowers.