Sentence examples for raceme from inspiring English sources

Bog asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum), of the family Nartheciaceae (order Dioscoreales), is a small herb growing in boggy places in Great Britain with rigid, narrow leaves and a stem bearing a raceme of small golden-yellow flowers.

This is exemplified in the spikes of yucca and the racemes of delphinium, in which the youngest flowers are farthest away from the root.

Flowers are arranged in spikes, racemes, or panicles.

The showy flowers, borne in racemes 60 90 cm (2 3 feet) long, grow straight from the trunk and have concave petals about 5 cm (2 inches) long.

The flowers are aggregated in spikes, clusters, or racemes and usually consist of a tube flaring into four or five almost equally cut lobes.

The flowers may be single in the axils of the leaves, or they may be arranged in racemes (spikelike clusters that bloom from the base upward), cymose spikes (clusters blooming from the top downward), or panicles (many-branched clusters).

Racemes of small flowers arise from the upper axillary buds of the stems.

The inflorescences are generally cymes or racemes, and the individual flowers are bisexual with a superior ovary consisting of three united carpels at the base of which is a single ovule.

The popular garden mignonette (R. odorata) assumes the form of a low dense mass of soft green foliage studded freely with the racemes of flowers.

The bright yellow flowers hang in pendulous racemes up to 25 cm (10 inches) in length and produce pods that are slender and compressed.

Look, there's the humble flowering currant, Ribes sanguineum, whose rosy-red racemes mark the beginning of spring.