When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty little plants, it's time to set them out where they are to remain.

When Siamese cats are intertwined it is difficult to tell where one leaves off and another begins.

Algae lack the various structures that characterize land plants, such as phyllids ( leaves ) and rhizoids in nonvascular plants, or leaves, roots, and other organs that are found in tracheophytes ( vascular plants ).

Carrot, celery and parsley are true biennials that are usually grown as annual crops for their edible roots, petioles and leaves, respectively.

Almost all species have a tight cluster of leaves ( a rosette ), either at the base of the plant or at the end of a more-or-less woody stem ; the leaves are less often produced along the stem.

Only in a few cases are leaves produced along the length of the stem.

They are upright perennial herbs ( to about 1. 50 m ), with distinctive leaves.

They are more or less rhizomatous, with spiral leaves and an inflorescence that may form a raceme or a spike.

They are herbs with corms and leaves which are sometimes stalked ( petiolate ) with wide blades.

Members of the family are usually perennial herbs with sword-shaped unifacial leaves ; the inflorescence is a spike or panicle of solitary flowers, or forms a monochasial cyme or rhipidium ( meaning that the successive stems of the flowers follow a zig-zag path in the same plane ); and the flower has only three stamens, each opposite to an outer tepal.

The leaves form a rosette at the base of the plant, and are alternate, distichous, flat, sessile, simple, linear or lanceolate, and parallel veined, with entire margins.

They are relatively robust herbaceous perennials with short rhizomes and leaves forming a rosette, individually linear-oblong, flat, rather fleshy.

The flowers are quite large, blue or white, forming an umbel at the end of a stem ( scape ) which is longer than the leaves.

They are herbaceous perennials with bulbs, and can be identified by their rather fleshy leaves, usually large and attractive flowers, with six stamens and an inferior ovary.

Most Apiaceae are annual, biennial or perennial herbs ( frequently with the leaves aggregated toward the base ), though a minority are shrubs or trees.

Their leaves are of variable size and alternately arranged, or alternate with the upper leaves becoming nearly opposite.

The leaves are 3 – 5 inches long, with a serrated margin and a petiole.

The flowers are white to pale pink, diameter with five petals, produced singly or in pairs and appearing before the leaves in early spring.

The word dandelion ( literally, tooth of lion, referring to the shape of the leaves ) is another example, being a substitute for pissenlit, meaning " wet the bed ", a possible reference to the fact that dandelion was used as a diuretic.

The transformation may be temporary or permanent ; the were-animal may be the man himself metamorphosed ; may be his double whose activity leaves the real man to all appearance unchanged ; may be his soul, which goes forth seeking whom it may devour, leaving its body in a state of trance ; or it may be no more than the messenger of the human being, a real animal or a familiar spirit, whose intimate connection with its owner is shown by the fact that any injury to it is believed, by a phenomenon known as repercussion, to cause a corresponding injury to the human being.

This is usually justified by the fact that any one firm or consumer is so small relative to the whole market that their presence or absence leaves the equilibrium price very nearly unaffected.

These leaves need not be explicit in computer memory — a null child pointer can encode the fact that this child is a leaf — but it simplifies some algorithms for operating on red – black trees if the leaves really are explicit nodes.

The transformation may be temporary or permanent ; the were-animal may be the man himself metamorphosed ; may be his double whose activity leaves the real man to all appearance unchanged ; may be his soul, which goes forth seeking whom it may devour, leaving its body in a state of trance ; or it may be no more than the messenger of the human being, a real animal or a familiar spirit, whose intimate connection with its owner is shown by the fact that any injury to it is believed, by a phenomenon known as repercussion, to cause a corresponding injury to the human being.

Whether a person " leaves " a society does not change anything to the fact that this society will still contain suicides.

The fact that the shot is taken right after a ceiling shot-floor bounce usually leaves the opponent in the rear of the court defenseless against the CB Pinch, when the player has suddenly rushed forward to take the shot.

** scaly or covered, when scales ( which are in fact transformed and reduced leaves ) cover and protect the embryonic parts ;

Lindsey realizes that the sub's crippled systems, the distance between the sub and the platform, and the fact that their sole source of oxygen is a backpack and regulator that are hard-mounted to Bud's diving helmet leaves just one solution.

The practitioner has no recollection of the possession and in fact when the possessing spirit leaves the body, the possessed one is tired and wonders what has happened during the possession.

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

The master, not wishing his servants to eat some sugar while he leaves on a trip, tells the servants that it is in fact poisonous aconite.

After Hank leaves with her new partner and Uncle Jed, Queenie laments the fact that her sister hasn ’ t found the happiness she deserves.

This use is not technically correct, as, despite their ' normal ' appearance, these leaves are considered, in fact, bracts, so that ' leafy inflorescence ' is preferable.

Noticeable are his long beard, the fact that he is naked except for leaves around his loins and his legs.

According to Kramer, he and Rose intentionally structured the film to debunk ethnic stereotypes ; the young doctor, a typical role for the young Sidney Poitier, was purposely created idealistically perfect, so that the only possible objection to his marrying Joanna would be his race, or the fact she had only known him for ten days: the character has thus graduated from a top school, begun innovative medical initiatives in Africa, refused to have premarital sex with his fiancée despite her willingness, and leaves money in an open container on his future father-in-law's desk in payment for a long distance phone call he has made.

Time magazine wrote, " Brown leaves analysis of the surf-cult mystique to seagoing sociologists, but demonstrates quite spiritedly that some of the brave souls mistaken for beachniks are, in fact, converts to a difficult, dangerous and dazzling sport ".

In fact Pinot meunier has been shown to be a chimerical mutation ( in the epidermal cells ) which makes the shoot tips and leaves prominently hairy-white and the vine a little smaller and early ripening.

The fact that the Gateway development leaves the railway capacity of the station more or less unaltered has not escaped attention.

The so-called " Codex XIII " is in fact not a codex, but rather the text of Trimorphic Protennoia, written on " eight leaves removed from a thirteenth book in late antiquity and tucked inside the front cover of the sixth.

It has been argued that a Congressional override of an executive order is a nearly impossible event due to the supermajority vote required and the fact that such a vote leaves individual lawmakers very vulnerable to political criticism.

With CA problems arise in the fact that if farms do not produce as much as conventional ways, then in this case leaves the world with less food for more people.

Rosmarinus officinalis, commonly known as Rosemary, is a woody, perennial herb with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple or blue flowers, native to the Mediterranean region.

The leaves are needle-like, 2. 5 – 5 cm ( 1-2 inches ) long, are shed when about 5 years old.

The leaves are spirally arranged but slightly twisted at the base to lie in flattish either side of the shoot, needle-like, long, green above with no stomata, and with two whitish stomatal bands below.

The leaves are spirally arranged but slightly twisted at the base to be upswept above the shoot, needle-like, 2 – 3 cm long, gray-green to blue-green above with a single broad stomatal patch, and with two whitish stomatal bands below.

The leaves are evergreen and needle-like, 8 – 60 mm long, arranged in an open spiral phyllotaxis on long shoots, and in dense spiral clusters of 15 – 45 together on short shoots ; they vary from bright grass-green to dark green to strongly glaucous pale blue-green, depending on the thickness of the white wax layer which protects the leaves from desiccation.

The leaves are needle-like, 2 – 5 centimetres long, slender ( under 1 cm wide ).

The specific name linearis comes from the plant's linear growing structure and needle-like leaves.

Traditionally, the local people would climb the mountains and cut the fine needle-like leaves from wild rooibos plants.

They are evergreen with needle-like and / or scale-like leaves.

Detail of Juniperus chinensis shoots, with juvenile ( needle-like ) leaves ( left ), and adult scale leaves and immature male cones ( right )

Many junipers ( e. g. J. chinensis, J. virginiana ) have two types of leaves: seedlings and some twigs of older trees have needle-like leaves 5 – 25 mm long ; and the leaves on mature plants are ( mostly ) tiny ( 2 – 4 mm long ), overlapping and scale-like.

In some species ( e. g. J. communis, J. squamata ), all the foliage is of the juvenile needle-like type, with no scale leaves.

The adult leaves are needle-like, in whorls of three, and jointed at the base ( see below right ).

The adult leaves are mostly scale-like, similar to those of Cupressus species, in opposite pairs or whorls of three, and the juvenile needle-like leaves are not jointed at the base ( including in the few that have only needle-like leaves ; see below right ).