Sentence examples for succulent leaves from inspiring English sources

Many desert plants, such as stoneplants (Lithops; Aizoaceae) and aloe (Aloe; Asphodelaceae), develop succulent leaves for water storage.

Although the succulent leaves are very high in water content, many accumulate salts and are generally avoided by herbivores.

He braises sweetbreads in a sauce scented with licorice root, at the very end tossing in the rigid, succulent leaves.

Arborescent or shrubby Asparagales are unusual but are known, for example, in some species of Dracaena and Aloe (family Asphodelaceae), the latter having succulent leaves.

Phylloglossum has a bulblike underground base, a few spike-shaped, succulent leaves, and one stalk bearing a cluster of scalelike leaves bearing sporangia.

All forms of cabbage have succulent leaves that are free of hairs and covered with a waxy coating, which often gives the leaf surface a gray-green or blue-green colour.

First, core ruschioids show great leaf shape diversity, often with succulent trigonous shapes or stones that allow increased storage of water and prevent excess water loss, in contrast to earlier diverging species of Aizoaceae, which tend to have flat, non-succulent leaves (Smith, 1998).

This could be a result of the development of more succulent, cylindrical leaves, the conspicuous bladder cells on their leaves or their weedy generalist habit (Smith, 1998; Klak et al., 2007).

Aloe, a tropical African genera with elongate, succulent (fleshy) leaves, is a favoured houseplant and is used medicinally.

But my salad was everything I had hoped for, with a thick, garlicky, almost Caesar-like dressing coating the succulent, crenulated leaves.

But since the early 1990s, the garlicky allium, with a slender white bulb, dark red stem and succulent green leaves, has gone from a Southern belle to a big-city starlet, with breathless articles in glossy magazines, top billing on restaurant menus and a paparazzi-like reception when the first crates arrive at farmers' markets in April.