| 单词 | spathe |
| 例句 | Their single succulent spathes ranged from shades of mottled black to blood red and glistening orange. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And the bloom itself — comprising a green spike, called a spadix, and a giant petal, called a spathe — stinks. Giant, smelly flower finally puts on show at Volunteer Park 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z The central spire, known as a spadix, is wrapped partially in a skirt called a spathe. Corpse flowers are invading the East Coast: Here’s how to see (and smell) one 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The tiny white flowers within the spathe are an important food source for the first pollinators of the year. In praise of winter buds 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Its compound flower is composed of a hollow, tall spadix with small flowers and a spathe, with one big, furrowed petal that is green on the outside and deep burgundy red on the inside. Endangered corpse flower blooms in Warsaw, drawing crowds 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z When the plant flowers, the spathe opens to reveal deep red flowers that emit a foul odor that draws pollinators. The rotten-smelling corpse flower is about to bloom. Here's how to watch it live. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The huge maroon spathe and spadix were impressive in more ways than one — visitors spent most of the day looking for what surely was a dead body in the border. These fragrant plants perfume the garden with heavenly scents 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z These are flanked by Voodoo lilies that produce a huge, purple spathe when in bloom, and reek of rotting meat. With an artistic pedigree — and perhaps a bit of an obsession — landscape designer Lisa Bauer creates a layered yard of expertly framed delights 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Its central column, the spadix, can grow to be more than 6 feet tall and is surrounded by a scarlet skirt of petals known as the spathe. An unexpected surprise: Li'l Stinker's corpse flower sibling is blooming at the Huntington 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Its central column, the spadix, can reach more than 6 feet and is surrounded by a scarlet skirt of petals known as the spathe. Reeking 'corpse flower' is poised to bloom at Huntington Library 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z It features a tall, fleshy column called a spadix and a frilly outer covering called a spathe. The rotten-smelling corpse flower is about to bloom. Here's how to watch it live. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The spathe on the corpse flower is striped green and white on the outside and a meaty red within. There’s a reason they call it a corpse flower 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z It courses past bright yellow spathes of skunk cabbage, so brilliant they earn the common name of a most uncommon beauty: swamp lantern. In flower, bud and ‘rib-it,’ signs of spring appear 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z When the spathe unfurls, the chartreuse spadix heats up to about 90 degrees and releases a rancid blend of chemicals. An unexpected surprise: Li'l Stinker's corpse flower sibling is blooming at the Huntington 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z When the spathe finally unfurls, the chartreuse spadix heats up to about 90 degrees and releases a rancid blend of chemicals. Reeking 'corpse flower' is poised to bloom at Huntington Library 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z At the time of blooming, the spathe unfurls downward, revealing a meat-colored interior. Eight Days of the Corpse Flower: A Diary 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z A: Calla lilies are natives of Africa renowned for their attractive foliage and beautiful spathe flowers. Colorful calla lilies are beautiful, and worth a spot in the garden, even if it’s for only one season 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Visitors in the Chicago crowd didn’t get outright stench, but they did get a hands-on experience: Dr. Still and Mr. Pollak began passing around pieces of Spike’s spathe to the visitors. Explaining the Strange, Stinky Appeal of the ‘Corpse Flower’ 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Inside the gardens, the guest of honor sat perched inside a greenhouse window, its wrinkled yellow spadix — the pointy center part — thrust upward, and its ruffled maroon spathe flaring outward. Thousands Stop to Smell a Flower (and Hope Not to Gag) 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes it instead produces a huge inflorescence, stretching up to three metres high, with very small individual male and female flowers at the base, surrounded by a kind of giant green petal called a spathe. The Secret of the World's Smelliest Flower 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The spathe is still clinging to the spadix, but it looks slightly more bulbous and cabbagelike than it did yesterday. Eight Days of the Corpse Flower: A Diary 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The spathe is the most visible part of the skunk cabbage’s flower, and it evokes nothing so much as dead meat. City Room: Early Bloomer, Aptly Named 2014-04-19T23:51:24Z So, as a breathless crowd watched, the two cut into the plant’s spathe to see if it was producing pollen. Explaining the Strange, Stinky Appeal of the ‘Corpse Flower’ 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Fertile flowers solitary and sessile in a tubular spathe upon an exceedingly lengthened scape. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The insects crawl over the spathe to leave their eggs in what they believe to be rotten meat, in the process transferring pollen – and this pollinates the plant. The Secret of the World's Smelliest Flower 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Like the calla lily, to which it is related, the corpse flower consists of a baguette-shaped structure, the spadix, surrounded by a big petal-like skirt, known as the spathe. Eight Days of the Corpse Flower: A Diary 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The spathes of aroid plants are conspicuous forms of bracts. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The spadix is wrapped by a spathe, a modified leaf that looks like one leathery petal. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z Aquatic, with more or less irregular perfect flowers from a spathe; perianth corolla-like. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Spadix.—With an erect, spoon-shaped spathe, one and one-half to two feet long; bright yellow. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The spathe has separated from the spadix, like a frothy, frilled cape, just barely revealing its deep maroon interior. Eight Days of the Corpse Flower: A Diary 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Barton.—The smell from spathe and flowers is pungent and very subtle. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z When the corpse plant blooms, the spathe will unfold to reveal its frilled and shockingly purple inner side. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z Seeds globose or angled.—Stems terete, from coated bulbs, with few plicate leaves, and few fugacious flowers from 2-bracted spathes. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When the plants are in bloom, in May and June, they are very handsome, the large spoon-shaped, golden spathes being conspicuous at some distance. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The spike will fall after the spathe completely opens, sometime in the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Eight Days of the Corpse Flower: A Diary 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z On opening the pointed spathe or floral envelope, a club-like mass will be noted arising from its base. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z It seems the spathe has pulled away, ever so slightly, from the spadix. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z Plants with acrid or pungent juice, simple or compound often veiny leaves, and flowers crowded on a spadix, which is usually surrounded by a spathe.—Floral envelopes none, or of 4–6 sepals. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The stem is about 18 in. long, and the spathe single-flowered. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The color within is a dull dark violet, while the interior of the spathe is lined with black, hooked bristles, the whole appearance of the flower being thoroughly repulsive. Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:29.743Z I told it to the trees, And to the flowers confest, And said not one of these Is like my lily drest; Nor spathe nor petal dared Vie with her body bared. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z The spathe is still wrapped around the spadix. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z Fruit in a globose cluster, enclosed by the persistent fleshy base of the spathe. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z It has long, narrow, flat, obscurely keeled leaves, a deciduous spathe, and a globose umbel of whitish flowers, among which are small bulbils. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z It is said that "the flowers occur in an enormous cluster, at first ensheathed by large and frequently wooden spathes, which often burst with an explosion." The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z Cultivated individuals almost without fail begin dying hours after the spathe unfurls. Chinese 'Corpse Flower' Finds a Mate in the U.K. 2011-06-03T18:42:23Z Air pumps dangle into the cup of the spathe – researchers are recording volatile emissions before, during, and after bloom. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z Flowers strictly diœcious; the sterile numerous and crowded in a head on a conical receptacle, enclosed in an ovate at length 3-valved spathe which is borne on a very short scape; stamens mostly 3. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A sheathing bract enclosing one or several flowers is called a spathe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The insects visit the plant in large numbers, attracted by the foetid smell, and act as carriers of the pollen from one spathe to another. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Under the glare of spectators and flashbulbs, Niu sliced into the spathe and extracted yellow sacs filled with pollen as fine as sand. Chinese 'Corpse Flower' Finds a Mate in the U.K. 2011-06-03T18:42:23Z In another day or two the spathe will collapse, unceremoniously. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z Leaves ovate, lanceolate or linear, parallel-veined, flat, sheathed at base; the uppermost often dissimilar and forming a kind of spathe.—Chiefly tropical. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z When the spadix is compound or branching, as in palms, there are smaller spathes, surrounding separate parts of the inflorescence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z As the fruit ripens the spathe withers, and the brilliant red berries are exposed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Spadix and spathe of the Indian Turnip; the latter cut through below. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The spathes are short, very thin and scarious, and enclose the bases of their rather small solitary flowers, which are “white, lightly striped and blotched with yellow and purple.” Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 Flowers diœcious or monœcious, axillary, solitary and sessile; the sterile consisting of a single stamen enclosed in a little membranous spathe; anther at first nearly sessile, the filament at length elongated. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The spathe protects the flowers in their young state, and often falls off after they are developed, or hangs down 555 in a withered form, as in some palms, Typha and Pothos. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Individual flowers small, but crowded on a fleshy spadix to form a conspicuous spike, usually surrounded by a green or colored spathe. 1a. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The flowers are arranged in branching spikes 5 or 6 ft. long, enclosed in a tough spathe, and the fruits mature in bunches of from 10 to 20. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" The male flowers form a spike and these are surrounded by very fragrant leaves called spathes. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 It grows about one foot high, and the leaves, after reaching a certain height, divide into long, narrow spathes, covered with hairs, each coated with a bright gummy substance. Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad Another apparently terrestrial organism of the lower formation, of, however, rare occurrence, very much resembles a sheathing bract or spathe. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Leaves more or less sagittate; spathe green Arrow Arum, Peltandra virginica. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State Alexis saw none of the trees in flower, their great spathes being yet unfolded; but, toping to find some one more forward than the rest, he kept on for a considerable distance through the forest. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Here he was observed to lay hold of the spathe of the flower, and bending it against the trunk, he commenced hammering away with the stone, evidently with the intention of crushing the young inflorescence. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Orchids spread broad spathes of scented bloom from grey trunks of courtyard trees, and cascades of crimson and purple creepers tumble over arch and wall. Through the Malay Archipelago Flowers white, on a flattened stalk, on a spathe of 2 leaflets and several dry threads enclosing 4 flowerets. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines The striped spathe in some species of Arisaema bears a curious resemblance to the head of a cobra uplifted to strike. The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir The fibrous spathe furnishes a material of much value to the natives. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture This he fixed on the spathe in such a manner that the incised end remained inside the hollow of the cane. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Spikes are of one linear joint gibbously bulbous at the base, and jointed on the peduncle at the base of the spathe by a minute curved pedicel. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses The supernumerary spathes are not always on the same level, but may be separated by a considerable interval. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants The fertilizing character of the spathe of the male date palm was familiar in Babylon from a very early date. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The spathes are so hard that, when filled with water, they will stand the fire, and are sometimes used by the Indians as cooking utensils. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture From the fresh spathe, by distillation, a certain stuff called tara water is obtained, of strong but agreeable smell, which is much used for the making of sherbet. Southern Arabia A. A cluster of spikes containing five spikes with their spathes; B and C. spikes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses On examining the tub I have spoken of, we found that it was formed from the spathe of the palm. On the Banks of the Amazon The buds, which are generally partially replaced by small bulbs, are enclosed in a spathe or sheath which entirely conceals them. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses And the plant is also called "Buck Rams," or "Buck Rampe," in allusion to its spadix or spathe. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Just as we were there they were very busy with the spathes, and in Thursday's Market huge baskets of the male spathes were exposed for sale. Southern Arabia The inflorescence is a panicle consisting of groups of dissimilar spikelets with compressed, boat-shaped spathes on peduncles. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses The folded spathe is of leather-like substance, rough, almost corky in texture; also variously marked and tinted. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. The adúbé, drawn from the cut spathe, which continues to yield for two or three months, is held to be wholesome, diuretic, and laxative. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The spathes are oblong acute or acuminate, convolute at the base, brownish-purple, striped longitudinally with narrow whitish bands. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 The torches are formed of the dried spathe or fronds of the cocoa-nut tree, and enable them to see the fish, which they take with hand-nets. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 The inflorescence consists of paired spikes with very slender peduncles arising from flattened, glabrous, acuminate spathes, varying in length from 1/2 to 1-1/4 inches. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses When the spathe opens, it does so quickly, bending more than half its length outwards, the division looking upwards. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Arums.—Remarkably handsome plants with fine foliage and curious inflorescence more or less enclosed in a hooded spathe, which is generally richly coloured and marked. Gardening for the Million The spadix is cylindrical, slender, terminating in along, whip-like extremity, much longer than the spathe. Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 We may also mention the pointed caps, which the spathes of certain palm-trees furnish, and which resemble coarse network. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 From the spathe a kind of spirit is manufactured, which is fully as strong as our whiskey. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes The spathe at its widest part is 6in. broad, and tapers off to a blunt point. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Here I saw, as I saw every ten minutes, something new—that quaint vegetable plaything described by Humboldt and others; namely, the spathe of the Timit palm. At Last I then gathered a spathe and breathed hard into it; several flies soon crawled out, and all without exception were dusted with arum pollen. Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom The fruits of the crescentia and the lecythis serve as vessels for containing food, while the spathes of the palms, and the bark of trees, furnish caps and garments without a seam. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The stem shows, at b, a little below the spike, remains of a lateral appendage, which is supposed to indicate the beginning of the spathe. The Student's Elements of Geology During the short period that the flower is open the lower part of the spathe or belly becomes filled with all kinds of flies, being held by the spear-like hairs. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. Near us a wooden bridge led across a shallow cove passing between myriads of pickerel weed whose light purple spathes formed a striking mass of color. See America First This Colocasia is supposed to bear, unlike the palm, male and female flowers in one spathe. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 During the present spring a few specimens of a small scavenger beetle have been captured within the spathes of this plant…. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors They are invisible until the folded part of the spathe is opened; they are numerous, arranged in a dense broad ring, sessile, and nearly black. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. |
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