It is cut down close to the ground, the leaves and leafstalks cleared away, and a broad strip of the bark taken off the upper side of the trunk. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Swellings called galls sometimes appear on leaves, leafstalks, succulent shoots, or nuts of the current season's growth of hickory and pecan. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
PhyllodineousHaving flattened, leaf-like twigs or leafstalks instead of true leaves. ❋ Unknown (1909)
At this transplanting, as with the following ones, the tall leaves should be cut or pinched off, leaving only the upright growth, as with the utmost care it is almost impossible to prevent the outside leafstalks from wilting down and dying. ❋ Unknown (1906)
CHARD, or SWISS CHARD, -- is a development of the beet species characterized by large succulent leafstalks instead of enlarged roots. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Some have red leafstalks and veins, others a uniform red or green foliage, some have red or white or yellow roots, or exhibit alternating rings of a red and of a white tinge on cut surfaces. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)
_Stem: _ Smooth, unarmed, climbing with the help of tendril-like appendages from the base of leafstalks. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
Sometimes tiny insects are found drowned in the wells of rain water that accumulate at the base of the grooved leafstalks. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
Leaves numerous, 3-4 inches long, 1-2 inches wide, light green and shining on both sides, ovate-lanceolate, oval or oblong-lanceolate, finely serrate; teeth sharp-pointed, sometimes incurved; apex acuminate; base obtuse or roundish; midrib depressed above; leafstalks short, channeled; stipules falling early. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)
These blades may be sessile or have leafstalks of their own. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)
_Q. tinctoria_; in the typical form, lobes broadly triangular or oblong, with parallel sides bristle-pointed; leafstalks short; stipules linear, soon falling. ❋ Lorin Low Dame (1860)
-- - Having flattened, leaf-like twigs or leafstalks instead of true leaves. ❋ Unknown (1859)
In the forest, we met with some few small Seaforthia palms, the young shoots of which we obtained with great difficulty, not then knowing how easily the natives strip them of the surrounding leaves and leafstalks. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)
Our guide showed us how we could easily obtain the young shoots, by splitting the leaves and leafstalks; and we enjoyed a fine meal of the cabbage. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)
Charles Darwin, who made so many interesting studies of the power of movement in various plants, devoted special attention to the clematis clan, of which about one hundred species exist; but, alas! none to our traveller's joy, that flings out the right hand of good fellowship to every twig within reach, winds about the sapling in brotherly embrace, drapes a festoon of flowers from shrub to shrub, hooks even its sensitive leafstalks over any available support as it clambers and riots on its lovely way. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
The Chickweed is also an instance of what is termed the 'Sleep of Plants,' for every night the leaves approach each other, so that their upper surfaces fold over the tender buds of the new shoots, and the uppermost pair but one of the leaves at the end of the stalk are furnished with longer leafstalks than the others, so that they can close upon the terminating pair and protect the tip of the shoot. ❋ Unknown (2009)
