Curls

"Crimson Curls" Coral Bells
"Crimson Curls" is a recent Heuchera hybrid developed by Ray Brown of in Devon, England, & released in the United States by Plant Haven of Santa Barbara, California.

Echeveria 'Blue Curls' - A mostly solitary plant with rosettes to 10 inches wide with frilly edged blue-green leaves that take on showy pink hues in spring and fall and produce reddish-pink flowers well spaced along long stalks in summer.

Carex albula 'Frosted Curls'
New Zealand Hair Sedge
Thin silvery green leaves are almost iridescent as they cascade over the edge of a container or trail across a walkway. Very attractive, compact, fine, weeping foliage forms in clumps.

Size (HxW): 'Zorro' and 'Blue Curls' 20cm x 40cm. 'Big Red' 30cm x 50cm.
Depth and spacing: Plant with the crowns at soil surface level and leave one plant width between each plant.

Carrot Curls
Garnish your salads or main entrée with a carrot curl. Before slicing, use a vegetable peeler to cut a strip of the peeled carrot. The carrot strip must be rolled and ...
Julienne Carrots ...

Foliage Curls, Turns Yellow shows Aphids
Check crape myrtle stems and leaves for bunches of soft-bodied, pear-shaped, insects a little bigger than the head of a pin. They may be white, yellow, red or brown.

'Golden Curls' - This hybrid plant is more shrubby than 'Tortuosa', with distinctive yellowish stems that are contorted and twisted. It often is shrubby in habit, though it may form a small tree with semi-pendulous branches.

bluecurls
Trichostema dichotomum
narrow-leaved bluecurls
Trichostema setaceum ...

Frosted Curls produces compact clumps of fine silvery green foliage with curly ends. It is deer resistant plant and will tolerate wet conditions
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Little Bluestem Grass ...

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(b) Salix Scarlet Curls®, it has golden twisted twig, scarlet in the winter, and curly leaves. It may also be a hybrid with 'Tortuosa' as one of it parents.

Heuchera 'Crimson Curls'
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Hardiness Zones:
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Heuchera 'Crimson Curls' PP 13,729 (Crimson Curls Coral Bell) From England's Ray Brown comes a stunner with incredibly ruffled foliage...even the ruffles are ruffled.

Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris [English]: Iris 'Cherry Curls'
Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris [English]: Iris 'Billy Boy'
Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris [English]: Iris 'Cold River'
Standard Dwarf Bearded Iris [English]: Iris 'Confused' ...

Carex 'Frosted Curls'
Carex buchananii
Carex comans 'Frosted Curls' (Carex 'Frosted Curls')
Carex elata 'Bowles Golden'
Carex morrowii 'Gilt'
Carex morrowii 'Goldband'
Carex morrowii 'Variegata' (Carex morrowii 'Goldband') ...

Its habit of peeling off in curls as the trunk and branches expand is similar to the guava and crape myrtle. It is evergreen but sheds half its leaves each spring before new growth begins.

It is known there as 'Heart of the Earth' and 'Blue Curls.' Cole, in Adam in Eden (1657), says: 'It is called by modern writers (for neither the ancient Greek nor Latin writers knew it) Brunella, from Brunellen, ...

Then, the head splits open and gives birth to a stalk that uncurls itself as it forces the split head farther open.

This seedpod curls back when it opens to reveal the seeds.
The small, hard, brilliant red seeds with a black spot are very toxic due to the phytochemical abrin (consisting of 5 glyco-proteins); a single seed if broken, ...

A small piece of fatwood can be used many times to create tinder by shaving small curls and using them to light other larger tinder.

As the tree grows, its branches reach out horizontally and then twist this way and that, creating curls or corkscrews. This gives the corkscrew willow four season interest in the home garden. In the spring, it has lovely buds.

The seed itself is pale fawn or brown (dark brown only after roasting) and has a characteristic groove on its inner surface, which curls round inside the seed.

When the seeds mature, the umbel curls inward and forms a nest-like collection of bristle-armed seeds that cause them to stick easily to passing pets or pant legs. As the seeds begin ripening, the plant dies.

Salix matsudana ( Scarlet Curls Hankow Willow )
Salix matsudana ( Snake Hankow Wilow )
Salix matsudana ( Umbraculifera Hankow Willow ) ...

From the swollen base of each red flower, a clawlike lower lip curls under and a tuft of gray stamens extends upward.
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The most unusual Carex is 'Frosted Curls' which has 30cm high dense grey tufts and forms a low growing hedge.

Native alternatives to Mexican petunia for use in home landscaping include wild petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis), blue curls (Trichostema dichotomum), butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa), or swamp milkweed (Asclepias perennis).
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young - bronze colour with white lenticels.
mature - golden colour.
small papery curls to grey with no sign of papery bark.
old trees have bark in plates.
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Not particularly noticeable, the reddish-brown bark on chokeberries is smooth with conspicuous lenticels, exfoliating into tight curls with a cross-check diamond pattern. Younger branches are slender and yellow-brown with silvery exfoliating scales.

Each section of the pod has a tip that curls upward as it dries looking like a horn hence the tricorne name.
Habitat: Rocky areas and rich woods.
Range: Throughout the southeast.
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Once an insect is trapped on a leaf, the leaf curls around the insect, bringing numerous sticky trichomes into contact with the insect.

Fruit: typical legume pod, flat 1-3in long, 1/2in wide, reddish or brown, curls when dry
Stems/Trunks: attractive gray shaggy/rough trunk; stems have small curved thorns
Range/Origin: SW US and northern Mexico
Hardiness: to 0°F ...

my move, I cut them off and I see it is going to sprout a nice leaf now, the problem I have is it sprouts ONE leaf at a time, if another comes up the bigger more mature leaf dies. It is kinda of a nice plant to watch sprout a new leaf it uncurls ...

Small bracts with three prongs grow between each scale. They curls up when the cone gets older, making the cone look very bristled. The bark of the Douglas-fir becomes very thick and grooved, with dark brown ridges as the tree grows older.

Bustle The base of the leaf blade on either side of the petiole extends backwards and curls up to form secondary leaves, giving the impression of a bustle on the back of the leaf. It was often seen in hybrids some years ago, but is rare nowadays.

See also: Green, May, Pink, Orange, Evergreen