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on the scarcity of fiber and minimal turpentine taste. The flesh of a mango is peachlike and juicy, with more or less numerous fibers radiating from the...

in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets. The leaf bases produce persistent fibers that often give the trunk a characteristic hairy appearance. All species...

caudex or corm is formed some inches in height, each throwing out stout fibers from the base, and from time to time producing offsets by which the plant...

sometimes more and is 8 to 10 inches in diameter when free of the leaf base fibers that tend to remain for a good while. The leaf crown is hemispherical and...

North America. It has an edible bulb covered with a dense skin of brown fibers and tastes like an onion. The plant also has strong, onion-like odor. Field...

upper side nearly to the middle, gray-green; segms. margined with numerous fibers 6-12 in. long: seed flattened on the raphal face. Probably S. Calif. and...

as long as the caudex, green both sides; petioles with very long hanging fibers; segms. broadly linear-acuminate, in clusters of 3-5, divaricate, very numerous:...

convex below, often spiny along the margins; sheaths margined with reticulate fibers: spadices long, at first ascending, pendent in fr., long- peduncled, loosely...

inside, long-pediceled and the outer ones nodding, the root with thickened fibers; intro. by Carl Sprenger of Naples. The above text is from the Standard...

Thunb., G. versicolor, Andr.). Corm, globose, with coverings of thick wiry fibers: st. slender, ft. or less, terete: lvs. about 3, terete, strongly ribbed...

Cyclopedia of Horticulture Hyphaene (Greek, to entwine; referring to the fibers of the fruit). Palmaceae, tribe Borasseae. Fan- leaved unarmed palms of...

ABACA, or Manila hemp, is the fiber of Musa texlilis, a native of the Philippine Islands, where it is grown for commerce. The plant is like the banana...

Describe the plant here... photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 w:Agave lechuguilla. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons...

tinctoria is the source of a dye. The leaves of pineapple yield a beautiful fiber. Bromelia Pinguin is a vermifuge employed in the West Indies. There are several...

leafy, weak, or even disposed to climb, arising from a root of thickened fibers. — Perhaps .50 species in S. Amer. There are garden hybrids. The alstremerias...

straw, or coarse fibers, remaining. To remove these the flax is "broken", the straw is broken up into small, short bits, while the actual fiber is left unharmed...

that has been used throughout recorded history by humans as a source of fiber, for its seed oil, as food (see hemp), as a drug, as medicine, and for spiritual...

wall; the inner layer of the wall of the valves is cleft into fascicled fibers). Saxifragaceae. Ornamental vines grown for their handsome bright green...

November and December, and the best general compost is a mixture of clean peat fiber and sphagnum moss chopped rather fine and well mixed, some sections requiring...

petioles 2-6 ft., the base inclosed in a reddish brown network of woody fibers; spines stout, black, recurved. Java. A.F. 26:654. The above text is from...