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• Petiole 2-6 mm, puberulent and ± setose; leaf blade papery, oblong to oblong - lanceolate, 5-11 × 1. 5-3.5 cm; base cuneate; margin ciliate; apex obtuse and mucronate; abaxial surface densely gray-white-pubescent, yellow-brown setose along midrib; adaxial surface sparsely to densely puberulent when young. Find Me A Cure
• Mornings The shades are drawn, and the computer screen bathes Chas's bleary eyes and papery skin in its pallid light. THE SAVAGE GIRL
• Some, such as tulips, have a brown papery coating called a tunic (just like onions).
• It is a beautiful tree, with gracious branches and a brilliant white papery peeling bark.
• They have thin lips and papery eyelids, box jawbones, prominent Adam's apples and withered hearts.
• In one short-season variety, some farmers are selecting for tough outer glumes (the papery coat or bract around the seed) and long awns (the hair-like bristle growing out from the glume) which help protect the grains from birds, a major pest of early rice. 14. Saving seeds for planting
• There are the perfumes too: scent of eucalypt leaves, fragrance of a boronia; and textures to feel: papery bark of melaleucas, furrows in ironbark trunks.
• Make sure you remove the papery membrane that you'll find between the two halves.
• The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp.
• Its leafy, elongated stems are 8-12 mm in diameter, initially green and covered by the amplexicaul, striated leaf bases which become dry, papery and grey with age.