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calyx and is
The calyx is tubular or campanulate, they are slightly curved or straight, and the limbs are often 2-lipped with five teeth.
The calyx is tubular.
The fruit is composed of the receptacle or upper end of the flower-stalk ( the so-called calyx tube ) greatly dilated.
A drink called solo is made from a decoction of the plant calyx.
The perianth is composed of two whorls, a fused tubular calyx, and a tubular corolla with one lobe larger than the other two.
The generic name is derived from the Greek words ευ ( eu ) " well " and καλυπτος ( kalyptos ) " covered ," referring to the operculum on the calyx that initially conceals the flower.
The calyx is made separately.
* Sea grape ( Coccoloba uvifera ; Polygonaceae )-the fruit is a dry capsule surrounded by fleshy calyx
* Wintergreen ( Gaultheria procumbens )-the fruit is a dry capsule surrounded by fleshy calyx
The calyx is long and tubular, swollen at the bottom, and sharply angled, surmounted by five sharp teeth.
* When the bract is attached to the stem holding the flower ( the pedicel or peduncle ), it is said to be recaulescent ; sometimes these bracts or bracteoles are highly modified and appear to be appendages of the flower calyx.
Staminate flowers are borne in hairy aments two and a half to three inches long ; the calyx is bright yellow, hairy, six to eight-lobed, with lobes shorter than the stamens ; anthers are yellow.
The staminate ( male ) flowers are without either calyx or corolla ; they consist simply of stamens, varying in number from two to ten, accompanied by a nectariferous gland and inserted on the base of a scale which is itself borne on the rachis of a drooping raceme called a catkin, or ament.
The pistillate ( female ) flowers are also without calyx or corolla, and consist of a single ovary accompanied by a small, flat nectar gland and inserted on the base of a scale which is likewise borne on the rachis of a catkin.
The calyx is bell-shaped.
The calyx generally remains attached to the fruit after harvesting, but becomes easy to remove once the fruit is ripe.
This is a sound, ripe kaki, soft enough for one to lift the calyx out cleanly and split the fruit for eating
At that stage the skin might be splitting and the calyx can easily be plucked out of the fruit before serving, which often is a good sign that the soft fruit is ready to eat.
The calyx is tubular, equally five-toothed, persistent ; the corolla is equally five-lobed, imbricate in the bud, cream-white, one-quarter of an inch across ; lobes acute, and slightly erose.
The calyx ( plural, calices, the sepals ) and the corolla ( the petals ) are the outer sterile whorls of the flower, which together form what is known as the perianth.
They have four curled-back petals and two high stamens with yellow or red anthers, between which is the low pistil ; the petals and stamens fall off after the flower is fertilized, leaving the pistil in the calyx tube.

calyx and usually
Flowers across the Apiaceae are fairly uniform and are usually perfect ( hermaphroditic ) and actinomorphic, but some are andromonoecious, polygamomonoecious, or even dioecious ( as in Acronema ), with a distinct calyx and corolla, but the calyx if often highly reduced, to the point of being undetectable in many species, while the corolla can be white, yellow, pink or purple.
Each scale bears two bractlets and three sterile flowers, each flower consisting of a sessile, membranaceous, usually two-lobed, calyx.
They usually form a small calyx with small bracts.
Botanically, the leaves are usually in pairs ( opposite ), and flowers have petals that emerge from the rim of the calyx tube.
The fruit is edible ; round, usually purple skinned ( sometimes greenish-white ), often green around the calyx, with a star pattern in the pulp ; the flattened seeds are light brown and hard.
Flowers are pentamerous with ( usually ) five stamen, a 5-lobed calyx tube and a 5-petalled corolla, the latter bright yellow and an 1. 5 – 3 cm ( 0. 5 – 1 inch ) wide.
Each stem usually has one terminal flower, rarely two, with golden yellow petals, much longer than the calyx lobes.
When they are plucked from the plant, the calyx will usually adhere and they will detach with a noticeable cracking sound.

calyx and ;
The leaves are trifoliate ( rarely 5-or 7-foliate ), with stipules adnate to the leaf-stalk, and heads or dense spikes of small red, purple, white, or yellow flowers ; the small, few-seeded pods are enclosed in the calyx.
The flowers are produced in clusters directly on the trunk and older branches ; they are small, diameter, with pink calyx.
Stamens four, inserted opposite lobes of calyx, on the margin of thin disk ; filaments flattened, exserted ; anthers oblong, introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally ; ovary wanting.
Staminate flowers are borne in hairy aments two to three inches long ; calyx pale yellow, hairy, deeply seven to nine-lobed ; stamens seven to nine ; anthers bright yellow.
Pistillate flowers are borne on short peduncles ; involucral scales are hairy, reddish ; calyx lobes are acute ; stigmas are bright red.
The male flowers are without calyx or corolla, and comprise a group of 4 – 60 stamens inserted on a disk ; filaments short, pale yellow ; anthers oblong, purple or red, introrse, two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally.

calyx and corolla
The small white, feathery flowers, with ten-cleft calyx and corolla, two stamens and bifid stigma, are borne generally on the previous year's wood, in racemes springing from the axils of the leaves.
The calyx, corolla, or stamens can be showy in this group.
The calyx, which may or may not be present, and the corolla are gamosepalous and four-lobed.
The female flower also has no calyx or corolla, and comprises a single-celled ovary seated in a cup-shaped disk.
The calyx ( all of the sepals ) and the corolla together make up the perianth.
They are characterized by a showy calyx and reduced corolla.
The corolla and calyx are distinct from each other.
The calyx and the corolla are both pentamerous ( with five lobes ), petals are free while sepals are connate or united at the base.
After entomophilous pollination, the corolla falls off and four round achenes develop inside the bilabiate calyx.
Each flower is composed of a deeply five-parted glandular-haired calyx and an urn-shaped pink to white, glandular to hairy, five-lobed corolla, long.
The pappus is the modified calyx, the part of an individual disk, ray or ligule floret surrounding the base of the corolla, in flower heads of the plant family Asteraceae.
The blossoms themselves each consist of about twenty stamens and a single pistil, bound together at the base by a short, green, tubular corolla and an even shorter calyx, just 5 mm long altogether.
Below the corolla, 5 leaf-like sepals form the calyx.

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