spathes

The picture shows 2 spathes, each with a spadix flower head.

Archive 2007-01-01 AYDIN 2007

The picture shows 2 spathes, each with a spadix flower head.

A stinky bloomer in January AYDIN 2007

It wriggles up and along a ridge, with the glaucous spathes of grass trees standing like spears on each hand, and where wattle and tough she-oaks grow leanly out of hard soil, thickly strewn with buckshot gravel, rust-coloured.

Tropic Days 2003

FOOD/MEDICINAL: Stalks pounded, boiled and milk added for children's colds and coughs (Samburu); fluid from spathes is applied locally for eye diseases.

Chapter 7 1999

In Beekeeping and Development 27 we carried news of research in India which indicated that [spraying with] neem derivatives did not deter three bee species from visiting coconut spathes having receptive female flowers with nectar.

9: Domestic animals 1996

There were all shapes and sizes of baskets made of palm-leaves, dates in profusion, fuel of the dried spathes, the male spathes for fructifying the palm, and palm-leaf matting -- the only furniture, and sometimes the only roofing of their comfortless huts.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

Nature here is not strong enough for the fructification of the palm, so at given seasons the pollen is removed by cutting off the male spathes; these they dry for twenty hours, and then they take the flower twigs and deposit one or two in each bunch of the female blossom.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

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 Mabel Bent

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 Emily Richings

But on the cultivation of the date-palm the most attention is lavished; it was just then the season at which the female spathe has to be fructified by the male pollen, and we were interested in watching a man going round with an apron full of male spathes.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent