In the pillowcases were crooked-spur, clamshell, butterfly, brown, night, rigid, twisted, and shiny-leaf orchids, and several specimens of the much admired, highly prized, rare white-flowered species Polyrrhiza lindenii the ghost.
In the pillowcases were crooked-spur, clamshell, butterfly, brown, night, rigid, twisted, and shiny-leaf orchids, and several specimens of the much admired, highly prized, rare white-flowered species Polyrrhiza lindenii — the ghost.
What's here instead is an astute observation: Rather than the usual background of shiny gold leaf that would sanctify the scene, adding a shimmering layer of mystical light when illuminated by candles, Pacino paints the dominant sky flat black.
Specimens of S. aureum from Azuay province in Ecuador have similarly shiny adaxial leaf surfaces to S. aspersum, but always have the characteristic golden dendritic pubescence of that species rather than the simple pubescence of S. aspersum.
Gold clouds are incised, then decorated with shiny gold-leaf squares and gold sprinkles.
Lay a vine leaf, shiny side down, on a clean surface.
A particularly impressive garden insect is the shiny, jewel-like leaf beetle.
Fluffy round cakes of halvah in flavors like rose, lemon, ginger and cardamom are artfully garnished with shiny coffee beans, leaf-green chopped pistachios and curling chocolate shards, the better to be cooed over and Instagrammed all day long.
Leaf: bright green, shiny.
By what obsessive standard of outdoor tidiness must we blow our lawns and blacktop driveways into a state of shiny specklessness, with every last leaf or grain of sand banished to the street?
From the beginning they present a fundamental asymmetry: the side turned toward the stem axis (adaxial) will become the smooth and shiny upper side of the leaf turned toward the light; the other side, turned toward outside (abaxial), present hairs and veins protruding and will become the lower side of the leaf.
