The colour is a dark purple, which rapidly fades when the weed is placed in fresh water or left exposed to the air.
It is remarkable for its early and heavy bearing; skin thin, free from acerbity, dark purple; flesh black purplish-red to the pit.
You will often find eight or ten yellow flowers blooming at the same time and a bunch of dark purple buds at the end of the stem.
Even the sepals, which are bigger and longer than the petals, are a rich, dark purple, except at the foot where they join the stalk, and there they are greenish.
On these petals there are tiny lines of dark purple dots, like rays, which run from the centre of the flower almost to the edge of the petal.
The four sepals are a dark purple colour, and they form a cup in which the lower or strap-shaped part of the petal is held.
Stipe very long, flexuous, tapering upward, curved and twisted at the apex, dark purplein color, standing on a thin hypothallus.
Stipe rather short, tapering upward, bent at the apex, dark purplein color.
Berries of medium size, round, dark purple, somewhat sweet to subacid with slight Candicans flavor.
Flowers in very early spring before the appearance of the new leaves, male in short dense clusters, dark rose-purple; female just below the apex of the lengthening shoot in pairs or in clusters of 3 or 4, dark purple.
Disk hemispherical to oblong-ovoid in fruit, dark purple or brown.
The plumage of the body and wings is white, except the tertiaries, which are lengthened and form a dark purple plume.
Note: These beads were of two kinds, one white, and the other black or dark purple.
The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color.
The most general colour is dirty gray or dark purple; but many specimens are pale pinkish-purple, owing to the exposure of the parietal tubes upfilled with shelly matter of this tint: there are also, as given under the characters of the vars.
The nerve just beneath this slight expansion, is coated all round by pellets of dark purple pigment-cells, but not actually united into a continuous layer.
The colour is white, often with a tinge of dark purple.
Even in the white specimens, when well preserved, the sheath is generally, but not always, either pale or dark purple.
Colours extremely variable; sometimes five longitudinal bands of dark purple can be distinctly seen (as in C.
The cirri and trophi are generally dark purple or lead-colour.
The sack (in specimens long kept in spirits) is dirty purple, and exteriorly between the scuta, dark purple.
The upper surface is of a dark purple colour, and coarsely spined; the arms of the largest specimens are more than a foot in length, and very fragile.
When we turn a leaf or two over we see that the under side of some is dark purple.
Each blossom has five petals of a dark purple colour; there are white Sweet Violets too, but none are growing in our little wood to-day.
Turning a leaf over we find that on its under side are black or dark purple spots.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dark purple" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
