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Meaning of "bract"
bract (noun) - a modified leaf or scale, typically small and associated with a reproductive structure, such as the colorful leaves found below a flower cluster
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- A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
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Each bract often has a red midstripe.
Many inflorescences are accompanied by a large white bract.
An abaxial bract forms on the uncommitted primordium.
The pedicel of each flower is enclosed in a bract.
There is no bract at the base of the umbel.
Each flower is subtended by a large bract.
Do not apply after bract initiation has begun.
The bract is used as a bowl for feeding pigs.
The flowers appear after each spathe or bract.
A small bract is called a bracteole or bractlet.
Each flower is subtended by a leaflike bract.
The bract may be brightly colored.
The flowers are subtended by a leafy bract.
Bract and spadix are erect.
The inflorescence is accompanied by a short bract.
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There is a single tiny bract at the base of each pedicel.
Individual floral apices originate in the axil of a bract.
A small bract is called a bractlet.
The purple part is in fact a bract.
The pedicels often bear a bract in their basal half.
A bract is a modified leaf.
Consider the bract as well.
The plant has a white tubular with constriction perianth without bract.
The umbel stalks are bractless or with a single membranous bract.
The term can also mean the lower bract on a peduncle.
There was one bract and two bracteoles surrounding each flower.
A reduced raceme or cyme that grows in the axil of a bract is called a fascicle.
The inflorescence has a bract which is sometimes longer than the spikes.
Application made after initiation of short days will delay blooming and impact bract size.
The central bract is spiny and larger than the other two.
The pistillate flower has a reddish or brownish bract with a gold center and white tip.
The lowest bract subtending the inflorescence is about the same length as the inflorescence.
A tertiary bud forms in the axil of this bract but does not complete development.
Each bract produces one or more flowers which bloom for only a few days.
The flowers are harvested when fully developed and dried without their bract nor receptacles.
The central stem produces bracts and in the axil of each bract is a cone scale.
Do not apply to Poinsettia after bract formation.
The leaf and bract nectaries differed from those from flowers in their length and diameter.
The inflorescence bears erect spikes with a long bract exceeding the length of the spikes.
All are two-flowered and do not possess a bract.
They are wrapped in a lance-shaped bract called a spatheole.
Beneath the spadix is the spathe, a type of bract.
There is a large, papery bract at the base of each flower.
Each of the flowers has a dark-colored bract.
If applied to poinsettia after bract formation, it may cause injury to bracts.
Each flower is subtended by a pale green, lanceolate bract.
The floral bract is longer than the tiny, green flowers.
Each flower has a club-shaped pedicel with a single bract.
There is a large, concave pinkish bract at the base of each flower.
The inflorescence is a cluster of several spikelets accompanied by a long, stiff, stemlike bract.
