Sentences with phrase «stamens grow»
About five bright yellow stamens grow up from the middle, while shooting outwards are very fine, whitish «hairs.»
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When researchers scaled up and down steep mountain slopes to install video cameras in the trees in which these flowers grow, they caught the plants offering a sugar - packed reward to visiting birds: the bellows organ, a bulbous, brightly colored appendage high in sugar and citric acid, which is attached to the plant's male reproductive organ, or stamen.
He was interested enough to have grown specimens of loosestrife in his garden, and to have spent much of the summers of 1862 and 1863 snipping stamens, «castrating» the plants to use his unsettling terminology, and meticulously hand - fertilizing them with camel - hair brushes.