Sentences with word «sepals»

Oh, on one of my prize Iris, I sometimes must cut the outer sepal, or the flower bud will entirely die.

The buds are harvested before their hour, Then must be steamed or boiled before they yield The tongue - like sepals with their toothsome bracts Attached to the receptacle, or heart, That stores the petals of the future flower.

At Key Stage 2 (Age 7 + to 11, Years 4 to 6) schools have to teach the following: Growth and reproduction; the main stages of the human life cycle; reproduction; the parts of the flower [for example, stigma, stamen, petal, sepal] and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation, seed dispersal and germination.»

Pick some yellow dandelion tops, remove the green sepal holding the flowers together, cover them with honey in a jar, label, and cap until the winter solstice on December 21 for a little summertime flower power.

Legend: a = anther, p = petal, s = sepal, pi = pistil, ovl = ovule - like structures.

With reddish purple sepals and petals and banded white filaments, P. alata is a scented climber for the conservatory.

Christ is shown in the amazing complicated blossom far better than shown in the outer sepals.

In my opinion, the end of the first phase is obvious, because some of the initial followers begin to «show the color» and push against the sepals (the outer shell of the blossom).

Sorrel is the common name given to the sepals of a hibiscus plant called Roselle, (or Hibiscus sabdariffa).

In comparison with gymnosperms, which possess rather rudimentary male and female cones (like the pine cone), flowering plants present several innovations: the flower contains the male organs (stamens) and the female organs (pistil), surrounded by petals and sepals, while the ovules, instead of being naked, are protected within the pistil.

Around the outside of the bud are three petals (small, circular in shape) and three sepals (large, triangular in shape).

Curiously, the whole plant, including the sepals that encase the fruit, is covered in sticky hairs.

In the Roeder laboratory, we ask how does a cell know how big to be and how does the whole organ (e.g. leaf, sepal or petal) made up of many cells know how big to be.

Although absent in most species, nectar may be produced in a spur of the labellum (8 in the illustration above), or on the point of the sepals, or in the septa of the ovary, the most typical position amongst the Asparagales.

They are characterized for having alternate and serrate leaves, as well as showy white to pink flowers, and bright red hips with no sepals.

In March you might see the beautiful cobwebby thistle (Cirsium occidentale), with pink flowers and lovely white cobweb - like fibers around the sepals.