Compound leaves

compound leaves -- n. Leaves with two or more leaflets attached to a single leaf stem.

The compound leaves are between 1 and 2 feet long.
The walnut fruit is a tasty nut, borne singly or in pairs, and enclosed in a solid, non-splitting green husk.
The thick bark is dark brown in color and divided by deep fissures into rounded ridges ...

Single or Compound Leaves
So when you first pick up a leaf determine if you are looking at a single leaf or a compound leaf. A single leaf is as it sounds - just one on a single stem.

Ming aralia's compound leaves are dark green, about four inches long, and highly variable.

Leaves: The compound leaves are composed of rows of narrow, pinnate leaflets. The branches grow from a basal rosette and arch and sway as they grow tall.
Latin Name:
Polemonium caeruleum and cultivars ...

The two-foot-long compound leaves are held up at an angle not quite horizontal but slightly upswept.

The plant, Panax quinquefolium, is a perenneial eight to 12 inches tall at maturity with handsome compound leaves (called "prongs") usually consisting of three large and two small leaflets.

The plant: A rare, dwarf version of the Ohio buckeye tree, this 5' x 5' shrub produces greenish-yellow flowers on four- to seven-inch long panicles rising from palmate, compound leaves.

Compound leaves with 3 rounded, notched leaflets arranged in elevated whorls around single, central flowering stalks. Basal leaves also look more notched than lobed.

The two principal types of compound leaves are pinnate and palmate:
Pinnate - leaflets or pinnae are arranged on the sides of the main leaf stalk.

During the growing season, its pest-free foliage of 10- to 12-inch-long compound leaves creates a superior canopy. Flowers are insignificant, but the fruit (yellow-orange drupes each about a half-inch in diameter) is quite showy.

Digitate Spreading like the fingers, the leaflets leaving the petiole at one point as applied to compound leaves. The same as palmate.
Dimorphic Having two forms.

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Fragrant clusters of pea-shaped, pale mauve flowers hang from the trees like grapes in April and May, lending a blush of bluish-purple to the hillsides and forests where they grow. The pale green compound leaves have 13-19 ovate leaflets.

See also: Flower, Soil, Plant, Leaf, Deciduous