leaf-bearing

• “Like leaf-bearing trees, they shed their leaves annually and grow new branches, increasing their crown every year.”

  4. Roof structure

• “Sometimes these crystals are coarser and less needle-like, as in Fig.K. Fig. C shows a transverse section through the leaf-bearing portion of the rhizome (at a), and is rather irregular on account of the fibrovascular bundles diverging into the base of the leaves of flower-stalks.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885

• “It is of uniform thickness, except near the leaf-bearing ends, which are thicker marked with numerous leafscars, or bare buds covered with scales, and often having attached the tattered remains of former leaves.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885

• “In certain of these the florets are submitted to very curious metamorphoses, each envelope remaining, but quite green, the stamina being little changed, the pistillum changed into a leaf-bearing branch, the stigmata, etc. into two leaves.”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “In (3) the leaf-bearing staff has an abundance of conventional foliage.”

  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See

• “The leaf-bearing clays of Alum Bay and Bournemouth are well known, and have yielded a large and interesting series of plant remains, including”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

• “This is well shown in the accompanying illustration (fig. 58), representing the thalamus of a strawberry prolonged beyond the fruits into a small leaf-bearing branch.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “M. Duchartre [167] mentions a case in the tomato in which the leaves gave origin to small leaf-bearing branches, which, of course, must have originated from buds, just in the same way as in the _Drosera_ before mentioned.”

  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants

• “Linnaeus, differs from the rest in having woody stems and leaf-bearing branches, the leaves being somewhat fleshy, but otherwise of the ordinary laminate character.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

• “Generally, however, the flower-bearing portion of the plant is sharply distinguished from the foliage leaf-bearing or vegetative portion, and forms a more or less elaborate branch-system in which the bracts are small and scale-like.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

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