Different geometries, densities, humidity rates and stalk shapes were considered and tested by means of hot-plate, hot-box and impedance tube in-lab experimental benches.
Some lamps are made of glass like the votive lights of Roman Catholicism with a wick dipped in a vegetable oil, usually coconut; some are made of clay; and others are made of rice paste with a central hollow filled with ritual clarified butter, or ghee, or are cut out of a plant stalk in the shape of a bark or raft.
The reddish purple, pink, or white flowers, growing two to three per stalk, are butterfly-shaped.
At one point, he engages in vigorous lovemaking in a cornfield, leaving a path of bent stalks in the shape of a hammer and sickle.
The phenotype was considered mutant if the trichome exhibited any of the following features: elongated interbranch zone, irregular branch length, abnormally elongated stalk and sword-shaped trichome.
The differences we measured were: differences in branch positioning (elongated interbranch zone), individual branch length, stalk height or bended shape of the trichome.
Tie trimmed, peeled asparagus into a bundle with kitchen string, so the stalks will keep their shape and cook evenly.
Look for gorgeous details from the Stalin era, like rows of streetlights built in the shape of stalks of wheat, and the gilded dazzle of the Friendship of Nations Fountain.
Think of the formal 17th- and 18th-century gardens, with their shaped hedges and geometric lawns, their strict boundaries, their determination to leave no plant's stalk unmarked by human shaping; or of the Romantic British garden that rebelled by placing artificial ruins in the midst of landscapes self-consciously gone to seed.
His furniture designs, based on the Rococo period, continued the French tradition of emphasizing constructive points organically (e.g., corners of armoires finished in the shape of stalks or tree branches) and employing inlay and carving that were essentially floral in style.
