What is "flowerhead"

Usage examples of "flowerhead".

Any one who will observe a flowerhead burying itself, will be convinced that the rocking movement, due to the continued circumnutation of the peduncle, plays an important part in the act. Considering that the flowerheads are very light, that the peduncles are long, thin, and flexible, and that they arise from flexible branches, it is incredible that an object as blunt as one of these flowerheads could penetrate the ground by means of the growing force of the peduncle, unless it were aided by the rocking movement.

Even after the flowerheads have buried themselves in the ground they continue, as will hereafter be shown, to circumnutate.

We therefore protected some flowerheads, similarly secured to sticks, from the light, and although some of them rotted, many of their subpeduncles turned very slowly from their reversed or from their horizontal positions, so as to stand in the normal manner parallel to the upper part of the main peduncle.

The flowerheads are able to bury themselves in common garden mould, and easily in sand or in fine sifted cinders packed rather closely.

Considering that the flowerheads are very light, that the peduncles are long, thin, and flexible, and that they arise from flexible branches, it is incredible that an object as blunt as one of these flowerheads could penetrate the ground by means of the growing force of the peduncle, unless it were aided by the rocking movement.

The capsules and flowerheads of some plants are bowed downwards through geotropism, and they then bury themselves in the earth for the protection and slow maturation of the seeds.

Hence a flowerhead which has been buried for a sufficient time, forms a rather large ball, consisting of the aborted flowers, separated from one another by earth, and surrounding the little pods (the product of the perfect flowers) which lie close round the upper part of the peduncle.

For the sake of distinction, it is commonly known as the Blue Fleabane, its flowerheads having a yellow centre, and being surrounded by purplish rays.

Even the bone-brown tiger-which occasionally passes over the dust dunes, leaving behind it tracks like menacing flowerheads in the twilight-does not kill its prey at drink.

Flowerheads of hard rush poked up out of the middle of the plants' round rosettes.