flower-heads

A – Throwing dirt, eating dirt, popping off flower-heads, eating flower heads, hitting each other in the head with shovels, scaring their mother by bringing her bugs.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

The upper pair of leaves stand either next to the flower-heads or remote from them.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

The grasses comprised a great variety, and amongst the plants a beautiful little BRUNONIA, not more than four inches high, with smaller flower-heads than those of BR.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

TRICHINIUM FUSIFORME R. Br., was covered with its globular, shaggy flower-heads, in the sandy open parts of the forest.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

TRICHINIUM, with conical flower-heads. 143 A species of HIBISCUS, with purple flowers. 144 A new species of

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Almost within reach from high water are representatives of a tall, shining-leaved shrub known as MORINDA CITRIFOLIA, the flower-heads of which merge into a berry which has a most disagreeable odour and a still more objectionable flavour.

Tropic Days 2003

It was half past ten when they sat down at a table spread with arabesques of flower-heads, petals, moss, trailing racemes and sprays of foliage until it resembled a parterre by Le Nôtre.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

There was a murmur of well-meaning awe and envy from the ladies present as the plant's several flower-heads flexed about on their stems, snapping viciously.

The Source of Magic Anthony, Piers 1979

But if Cadfael was not there, his garden-boy was, industriously clipping off flower-heads dead in the heat, and cutting leaves and stems of blossoming savoury to hang up in bunches for drying.

One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979

What seasons fermented in Granny Wallon's kitchen, what summers were brought to the boil, with limp flower-heads piled around the floor holding fast to their clotted juices - the sharp spiced honey of those cowslips first, then the coppery reeking dandelion, the bitter poppy's whiff of powder, the cat's-breath, death-green elder.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959