How To Use spadix In A Sentence
- The flower head consists of a spathe and spadix.
- Besides the spadix and the fruit of the seje palm, the Indians of Javita lixiviate also the ashes of the famous liana called cupana, which is a new species of the genus paullinia, consequently a very different plant from the cupania of Linnaeus. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
- The blame lies with the plant's appearance – it has speckled leaves and its flowers are well-hidden, but their spathe (the special leaf that protects the flowers of an arum) and spadix (the spike on which the flowers are arranged), are said to resemble male and female genitalia. The power of spring flowers
- The flower head consists of a spathe and spadix.
- Always bitterly exuberant, you see life as a pink spathe swathing a yellow spadix.
- The perfect bloom was not expected because visitors had hurled stones at the flower, bruising the spadix.
- The specific epithet amorphophallus refers to the central spadix of the arum, and essentially means amorphous phallus, or shapeless penis.
- Four of the five bracts that enclose and protect the plant's spathe and spadix now have fallen.
- The kalo leaves are eaten like spinach (_luau_), and the flowers (spathe and spadix), cooked in the leaves of the cordyline Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
- The fruit is composed of a mass of berries on a spadix, the fleshy central spike first seen in the flower.
