Stems are green smooth and glabrous ( having no Trichome or glaucousness ), mostly without spiny wings.

The Stems, with a new drummer, David Shaw, on board spent most of 1986 touring to promote their EP, including national tours supporting Flamin ' Groovies and the Hoodoo Gurus, and also seeking a label deal.

In March 2003, The Stems reunited for a national tour of the local and international music scene.

In 2007 The Stems undertook a national tour alongside Hoodoo Gurus and Radio Birdman.

In July 2009 The Stems announced that they would be disbanding later that year, with an eight date national farewell tour in October.

Traditionally, years were marked by one of twelve Earthly Branches, represented by an animal, and one of ten Heavenly Stems, which correspond to the five elements.

The Stems were an alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1983 and were heavily influenced by 1960s garage rock and 1970s power pop.

" I was not very happy with the way things were going towards the end of the Stems.

The Heavenly Stems were used in combination with the Earthly Branches, a similar cycle of twelve days, to produce a compound cycle of sixty days.

Stems and leaves of chrysanthemum were added to fermented grains and were brewed for a year straight.

* In 13, under Emperor Wang Mang's rule, the Heavenly Stems were incorporated to number the years and replace the previous system which used only the Earthly Branches.

The Branches are as old as the Stems ( and according to recent archaeology may actually be older ), but the Stems were tied to the ritual calendars of Chinese kings.

Stems were used in construction and tool making.

* Ten Heavenly Stems, which were combined with the 12 Earthly Branches to form a sixty-year cycle ;

Stems and bars were 80 per cent of Cinelli's own sales.

The Stems had released a total of five singles, one EP and one full length album, and set an impressive record with each release reaching No 1 on the Australian alternative charts.

A one off " Fremantle supergroup " named The Roundhouse formed in 2010 consisting of Dom Mariani ( The Stems ), Greg Hitchcock ( You Am I, The Kryptonics ), Felicity Groom, Steve Gibson ( The Kill Devil Hills ) and Sophie Elton ( The Jam Tarts, Nansing Quartet ).

In Latin, nouns of the first, second, fourth, and fifth declensions are considered thematic ; the first declension has the theme vowel a, the second o, the fourth u, and the fifth e. Stems with i are treated together with athematic stems in the third declension, as they came to closely resemble one another.

The rest are kanji commonly used in numbering and ordering systems: 4 numerals ichi " one ", ni " two ", san " three ", and yon " four "; 3 locatives ue " top ", naka 中 " middle ", and shita " bottom "; 4 Heavenly Stems kinoe " first ", kinoto " second ", hinoe " third ", and hinoto " fourth "; and the 3 cosmological ten " heaven ", chi " earth ", and jin " person ".

Stems can attain lengths of over one metre in a single growing season, but die back and form turions in winter.

The Stems first Sydney show was a sold out show with the Painters and Dockers at the Trade Union Club.

The Stems then toured nationally to promote the new album, playing their first shows outside Australia last year, including European dates and a successful U. S visit which included the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

The ten Celestial or Heavenly Stems () are a Chinese system of ordinals that first appear during the Shang dynasty, ca.

Each term in the sexagenary cycle consists of two Chinese characters, the first representing a term from a cycle of ten known as the Heavenly Stems ( 天干 ; tiāngān ) and the second from a cycle of twelve known as the Earthly Branches ( 地支 ; dìzhī ).

The Stems played at local venues such as The Wizbah, The Old Melbourne and The Shenton Park Hotel on a regular basis, the group built up a substantial following in Perth, at a time otherwise dominated by cover bands.

Following the re-release of their album At First Sight, Violets Are Blue and the release of the Mushroom Soup: The Citadel Years in 2003, The Stems found themselves playing to packed houses across the country, touring Europe, playing the prestigious " Little Stevens Underground Garage Festival " in August 2005, and then at the " Come Together Festival " at Sydney ’ s Luna Park with the cream of Australia ’ s newest bands in September 2005.

Elements of their sound are similar to aspects of successful contemporary Australian bands of the time, such as Died Pretty, Hoodoo Gurus, The Stems and The Church as well as American groups Green on Red and The Dream Syndicate.

Stems exit at the end, while juice, skins, seeds, and some debris exit the bottom.

Stems are made of multiple materials ( titanium, cobalt chromium and stainless steel ) and they can be monolithic or modular.

Stems may be roots, e. g. run, or they may be morphologically complex, as in compound words ( cf.

Stems and bits of tobacco pipes are usually made of moldable materials like vulcanite, lucite, Bakelite, and soft plastic.

People tend to drift apart, there are internal conflicts, egos going wild, and bad management was probably the major factor that contributed to the Stems breakup.

Stems, which are a critical component of shoots, provide an axis for buds, fruits, and leaves.

The Earthly Branches are today used with the Heavenly Stems in the current version of the " traditional calendar " and in Taoism.

Stems are placed in a radial fashion and feature abundant use of seasonal flowers and foliages.

Stems and leaves are finely arachnoid-tomentose becoming glabrous and green with age.

Stems are covered in curved spines.

Stems are harvested by either cutting just above the lateral roots or else bending the stem.

Stems are mostly placed word-finally, but in some cases word-initial stems are used.

Stems are monopodial until an inflorescence is formed, and then it becomes sympodial ; this prevents the rosette from dying as in Agave.

Stems are usually short, however the stem of Laelia anceps can be more than 1 m long.

Stems are hollow.

Stems tend to be narrow or even wiry ; leaves are evergreen in most species, arranged in opposite pairs, oval, entire, and small, 4 – 20 mm long, and usually aromatic.

Stems are completely subterranean and the root is shaped like a carrot.

Stems and leaves are often succulent.

Stems are either smooth for actuator controlled valves or threaded for manual valves.