Floral arrangement

The flowers of Leptospermum resemble flattened roses, and the small dark green leaves resemble those of the herb rosemary. Before tea was available in Australia, the leaves of Leptospermum were used as a substitute for tea, which is made from the dried leaves of a species of Camillia. From this early use by European settlers, the genus Leptospermum derives the common name tea-trees. Young branches and dried seed pods of Eucalyptus are popular in floral arrangements. The young branches have the attractive round leaves tightly appressed to the stem and are characteristic of juvenile material from species of the Myrtaceae. The leaves are mottled with wax. 

Cyclic Having the floral leaves arranged in cycles or whorls. 

Of these plants, the one that has been most used as a psychedelic is the baby Hawaiian woodrose. This actually isn t a rose, but rather a woody climbing vine or liana with silvery foliage and violet flowers. When dried, the leaves turn tan on the outside and a light, warm saddle brown on the inside. The pod has the color of caramel. This beautiful arrangement has resulted in its use in floral displays and corsages. Native to India, it is now cultivated throughout the world s tropical regions. 

Prefioration.—By prefloration is meant the arrangement of the floral envelopes in the bud. It is to the flower bud what vernation is to the leaf bud, the same descriptive terms being largely employed, as convolute, involute, revolute, plicate, imbricate, etc. 

A Typical or Complete Flower possesses four whorls of floral leaves arranged upon a more or less shortened stem axis called a receptacle, torus or thalamus. These whorls passing from periphery toward the center are calyx, composed of parts called sepals corolla, composed of parts termed petals andrcecitm, composed of parts called stamens or microsporopylls and gyncecium, composed of one or more parts termed carpels or megasporophylls. 

Estiva tion (Aestivition).—The arrangements of the floral organs in the flower bud. 

The filmmaking career was not to be. As Tompkins finished Mountain of Storms and started casting about for his next project, another opportunity arose to sidetrack him his wife s new business. When he had returned from his six-month Patagonian trip, he found that Susie had not simply waited at home with the kids. She and a friend, Jane Tise, who had worked at the ski shop before The North Face took its place, had started their own kitchen table business, the Plain Jane Dress Company. They had been making hippie-style, floral-patterned knit mini-dresses and marketing them to local stores. The office was the Tompkinses house, an arrangement that solved the problems of child care and the fact that they couldn t afford extra rent. 

Floral Organs A flower comprises four different organs called sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels, which are arranged in con-... 

A EXPERIMENTAL FIGURE 15-27 Phenotypic analysis identified three classes of genes that control specification of floral organs in Arabidopsis. (a) Diagram of the arrangement of wild-type floral organs, which are found in concentric whorls. 

AQUISITIO Geo. Sigil for one of the sixteen geomantic figures, for which a multitude of variants (dots, stars, floral devices, etc.) is used to denote the sane four-fold arrangement Aqaisitio is... 

Leaves show considerable variation in size, shape, arrangement of veins, type of attachment to the stem, and texture. They may be simple or divided into leaflets, i,e, compound (see illustration), Types of leaf include cotyledons (seed leaves) scale leaves, which lack chlorophyll and develop on rhizomes or protect the inner leaves of a bud foliage leaves, which are the main organs for photosynthesis and transpiration and bracts and floral leaves, such as sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels, which are specialized for reproduction. 

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