leaf scar in a sentence
Examples
- The winter twigs of northern catalpa are like those of few other trees, having sunken leaf scars that resemble suction cups.
- The trunk is cylindrical, smooth, light colored, covered with wax; leaf scars forming dark rings around the trunk.
- Light and dark concentric circles of narcotic tissue characterize this symptom, occurring near buds killed by cold or on leaf scars.
- The n + kau grows up to 15 m tall, with a stout, green trunk which bears grey-green leaf scars.
- The twigs are slender to moderately stout, brown with deep U-shaped leaf scars, and with short, light brown, fuzzy buds.
- It also can enter through short, dead pruning stubs, leaf scars, winter-killed buds on small twigs, and on poorly healed pruning cuts.
- The leaves are fan-shaped ( " costapalmate " ) and the trunk columnar, naked, smooth or fibrous, longitudinally grooved, and obscurely ringed by leaf scars.
- The closely packed diamond-shaped leaf scars left on the trunk and stems as the plant grew provide some of the most interesting and common fossils in Carboniferous shales and accompanying coal deposits.
- As a result, vulnerable tissues are at risk of initial invasion throughout most parts of the year, although it most commonly occurs in autumn and spring following winter injury and leaf scars.
- Also known as the New Guinea Palmyra palm, " B . heineanus " grows up to 20 m tall with a robust trunk ringed with leaf scars; the old leaves remain attached to the trunk, but eventually fall cleanly.