- well,
especially when it has been plucked.
Other words for twig
include branchlet, spray, and surcle, as well as the
technical terms surculus and ramulus...
-
photosynthetic branchlets, the
leaves reduced to scale-like
leaves arranged in
whorls of 5 to 20
around the
branchlets. The
branchlets are
segmented at...
- greyish-brown,
fissured bark,
which produces a
milky white exudate. The end of
branchlets and the
petioles are
covered with short,
brown hairs. The
leaves are simple...
- scale), one
subtended by each
bract scale,
derived from a
highly modified branchlet. On the upper-side base of each seed
scale are two
ovules that develop...
-
Eocene (Ypresian) age M. occidentalis
branchlet...
-
forms root
suckers and has
fissured and
scaly bark,
spreading or
drooping branchlets, the
leaves reduced to
scales in
whorls of 12 to 20, the
fruit 9–18 mm...
-
arranged in
whorls of 7 or 8 (occasionally 6)
around the
branchlets. The
sections of
branchlet between the leaf
whorls (the "articles") are 5–13 mm (0...
-
branchlets, leathery,
narrow oblong leaves and
white to cream-coloured
flowers arranged in
umbels of
between three and six on the ends of
branchlets....
- branches, the
flowers zygomorphic,
arranged in
racemes at the ends of
branchlets, and the
fruit a
follicle that
splits down one side only,
releasing one...
- pairs, but
these pairs are
really borne on spur-like, two-leaved,
lateral branchlets. The
fruit is a
small samara,
although the
wings may be
obscure in some...
