Leaf Blade

  • (noun): Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
    Synonyms: blade

Some articles on leaf blade, leaf, blade:

Nepenthes Rowanae - Taxonomy
... rowanae Morphology of leaf blade Acute to rounded Contracted towards the apex, then continuing along the tendril as a narrow, acute, extension Insertion of tendril to leaf ...
Ophioglossales
... an annulus, and borne on a stalk that splits from the leaf blade and fleshy roots ... Many species only send up one frond or leaf-blade per year ... spikes only, without any conventional leaf-blade ...
Glossary Of Plant Morphology Terms - Vegetative Morphology - Leaves
... Leaf Parts – A complete leaf is composed of a blade, petiole and stipules and in many plants one or more might be lacking or highly modified ... Blade – the flat and laterally-expanded portion of a leaf Leaflet – a separate blade among others comprising a compound leaf Ligule – a projection from the top of the sheath on ... – Venation Acrodramous – when the veins run parallel to the leaf edge and fuse at the leaf tip ...

Famous quotes containing the words blade and/or leaf:

    “It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Black creeps from root to root,
    each leaf
    cuts another leaf on the grass,
    shadow seeks shadow,
    then both leaf
    and leaf-shadow are lost.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)