Axils: The angle or upper side where the leaf is attached to the stem.
Biennial: Plants whose growth span extends over two growing seasons, germinating and growing the first year and flowering and producing seeds the following year.
Twigs, bud axils, bark crevices
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Silver tip through June often found on apple several weeks after bloom ...
These are known to botanists as the Oriental variety, which propagates through bulbs that form at leaf axils, and the common wildflower variety, which propagates by tuberous roots.
Check the undersides of the foliage and the axils of leaves for signs of insects or disease. Select plants that look sturdy, clean, and well-potted. Choose plants with healthy foliage.
Symptom: Stunted plants; white cottony clusters in leaf axils.
Cause: Mealybugs. Look for white or gray, 1/8-inch-long bugs covered with a cottony or mealy wax secretion.
Bulbils grow on the stem in the axils of leaves or bracts. They may be small bulbs, as in some lilies, or leafy appendages, as in Alpinia purpurata (red ginger), Dietes iridioides (African iris), and Hemerocallis spp. (daylilies).
The white cottony ‘stuff' in the leaf axils is home to eggs laid by mealy bugs, which eventually hatch and become microscopic orange crawlers that feed on your plant.
Look for chewed leaves (a caterpillar may be on the leaf or nearby) or frass (dark pellets of excrement) on leaves or leaf axils. Some larvae feed communally; look for batches of Mourning Cloak larvae on willows.
Axilary buds - Buds that form in leaf axils.
Biennial plants - A plant that grows, flowers, produces seeds or fruit, and dies in two years. Some herbacous flowers and vegetables are biennial.
A small structure located in the axils of the primary veins on the lower surface of leaves in some woody dicotyledons, usually consisting of depressions and being partly enclosed by leaf tissue or hairs.
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The sprouting type forms lots of small florets in the leaf axils.
The Romanesco type—that questionable third type—is unique, with spiraling, conical clusters ascending into apple green heads.
Fruit, borne singly or in clusters at the leaf axils, is small, ranging in color from orange to deep red, and covered with small dots. The berries, which generally ripen in early July to early August, are extremely bitter.
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Bulblet Small bulbs arising in the leaf axils.
Bundle scar Small dots or lines on the surface of the leaf scar marking the point of original departure of the vascular conducting strands into the leaf. Also called bundle trace.
Dense racemes of the beautiful deep red tubular flowers are born short stalks in the leaf axils in late spring. The flowering season is short, but very showy. A light prune after flowering will encourage a compact shape to the shrub.
This robust climber produces tiny green flowers in panicles from the leaf axils in summer; clusters of edible fruit follow. For some gardeners, though this plant's main attraction is its leaves. In any event, grow this vine over a trellis or fence.
The sprouts are buds that grow in the axils of each leaf. They look like tiny cabbages and are considered a type of wild cabbage. The plant itself looks like a small palm tree and the sprouts grow along the trunk-like stem.
To prune determinate tomato plants to a single stem, remove the suckers (small shoots) that appear in the leaf axils of the main shoot.
Flowers borne in whorls in the axils of terminal leaves.
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Lignotubers- A woody swelling at ground level originating from the axils of the cotyledons from whose concealed dormant buds a new tree can develop if the old one is injured. Characteristic of many Eucalypts.
Select only those foliage plants which appear to be insect and disease free. Check the undersides of the foliage and the axils of leaves for signs of insects or disease.
When the young plant has formed three pairs of leaves the centre growing tip is removed. This pinching stimulates the dormant eyes in the leaf-axils of the remaining pairs of leaves, causing rapidly outward growth.
Its evergreen foliage looks great all year, and in spring, tiny flowers tucked into the leaf axils give the plant a heady fragrance. Treat this plant as you would an azalea or rhododendron " give it moist, well-drained, organic soil.
axil -- The angle formed between a leaf stalk and the stem to which it is attached. In flowering plants, buds develop in the axils of leaves.
Branching from the base, henbit produces leaves that are rounded with bluntly toothed margins that appear like a collar around the stem. Flowers are in whorls in the upper leaf axils and are small, tubular and purplish-pink.
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During dull weather, dust the flowers with a feather duster or a paint brush. Remove all sideshoots of cordon tomatoes from the axils of the leaves when they are 2.5 cm (1 in) long. Leave the sideshoots on bush varieties.
secondary bloom. A second production of flowers on a potato plant, occurring at the end of the mainstem of an indeterminate cultivar; secondary bloom may occur on a determinate cultivar at leaf axils along the mainstem.
Branches, on the other hand, need to be taken out. They form at the leaf axils, the spot where the leaf meets the main stem. If you catch them early, like the one in the photo, you can gently pinch them out or rub them off.
There are no blossoms to watch for; the tiny flowers of the fig are out of sight, clustered inside the green fruits (technically a syconium). But one morning I discovered miniature figs emerging from leaf axils in a stiff 45-degree angle from the ...
(OE. telgor, telgra, branch, twig, shoot) sprout, stalk, especially one from the base of a plant or from the axils of its lower leaves.
 See also: Flower, Plant, Leaf, Growing, Foliage
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