This year several varieties showed abundant pistillate flowers but there was but one European variety where it was not evident that the staminate flowers had suffered greater or less winter injury.
This variety, Grosse Kugelnuss, shed an abundance of pollen when pistillate flowers of several of the others were receptive and there are nuts on three or four varieties for the first time.
The crimson pistillate cones hide at the ends of the branches, lengthening into fruits three to ten inches in length, and half as wide.
Not until May do the rusty yellow winter buds of the white ash swell and throw out on separate trees their staminate and pistillate flower clusters from the axils of last year's foliage.
The pistillate flowers, greenish yellow, tipped with pink, are out of sight as a rule, among the needles in the tree-tops.
For instance, a white oak and a bur oak grow near enough for the wind to "cross-fertilize" their pistillate flowers.
The pistillate flowers, minute, pale green, crowd along the ends of the leafy sprays, their cone scales spread to receive the vitalizing dust brought by the wind.
The flowers of fir trees are abundant and showy, the staminate clusters appearing on the under sides of the platforms of foliage; the pistillate held erect on platforms higher up on the tree's spire.
Among the youngest leaves, toward the end of the shoot, the purplish rosy lips of the erectpistillate cone-flowers catch the dust from neighbor trees, and their naked ovules absorb it and set seed.
In spring the opening leaves and pistillate flowers are red, giving the silvery green tree-top a warm flush that cheers the passerby.
The pistillate catkin matures into a woody cone made of overlapping scales attached to a central stem.
The flowers, like those of all other hickories, are of two kinds on the same tree; the staminate in three-branched catkins, the pistillate in clusters of 2 to 5.
They are of two kinds on the same tree--the staminate flowers in a linear cluster and the pistillate flowers in a rounded ball.
The catkins of the staminate flowers are about 2 inches long; the spikes of the pistillate flowers are about half as long and stand on short stalks.
The staminate and pistillate flowers are on the same tree, the former in long yellowish-green drooping catkins and the latter are short with red-fringed stigmas.
The flowers are of two kinds on different trees, the staminate in dense reddish-purple clusters and the pistillate in more open bunches.
The flowers appear with the leaves, the staminate are in hairy catkins 2-3 inches long, the pistillate are sessile in axils of the leaves.
The staminate and pistillate flowers are usually on different trees.
Distribution of a powerful species of hickory, like the pecan, seems to be limited in the North by incomplete development of the pistillate flowers.
These are borne on the ends of the herbaceous shoots of the year, and the pecan has such a long growing season that in the North the pistillate buds, which are last developed, are exposed to winter killing.
Mr. Littlepage: While it is true they may mature staminate and pistillate blossoms, the question arises whether or not the growing season is going to be long enough at the end to mature the nuts.
Still, on one or two branches which I had tagged, as being particularly full of pistillate flowers, there were noticed an almost equal number of dead pistillate flowers a little later.
The staminate flowers were picked from some six or eight American hazels which were blooming well and the pistillate flowers were pollinated with Italian Red pollen, in the hope that some hybrid nuts would result.
The pretty little flowers are half an inch across, the calyx with small teeth or with none and the corolla cream-white, with from five to seven lobes; the staminate flowers in loose clusters and the pistillate ones single.
Some plants have only staminate flowers and some only pistillate ones, and the appearance is quite different, the flowers with stamens being handsomer.
This Meadow Rue has its pistils and stamens on different plants, the flowers with tassels of stamens being prettier and more conspicuous than the small, green, pistillate ones.
A group of vigorous young trees, the result of placing pecan pollen on the pistillate trees of Siebold walnut.
Several trees five years of age, the result of English walnut pollen on Siebold walnut pistillate flowers.
A group of hybrids resulting from placing the pollen of the Siebold Japanese walnut upon the pistillate flowers of our butternut.
The catkins are tender and become winterkilled in our Northern States, but if the pistillate flowers are fertilized by pollen from some more hardy plant, this purple-leaved filbert is exceedingly prolific.
The small fruiting twigs are seldom more than four to six inches long, and sometimes almost every well-developed bud on these contain pistillate flowers and embryo nuts, either singly or in clusters.
One year the trees were in full bloom the last week in February, and although cold weather followed, the protectedpistillate flowers were not injured.
While the flowers are generally dioecious--staminate and pistillate flowers being borne on different plants--there appear also hermaphrodite flowers, having both pistils and fully developed stamens in the same flower.
In the older orchard about 16 varieties bore a number of pistillate flowers that were recorded as medium or greater.
The pistillate or female flowers are much hardier than peach flowers.
As stated earlier, the pistillate flowers were hardier than the catkins and nearly all varieties in both orchards had at least an occasional female flower.
The pistillate flowers are also hardier than the wood as flowers were observed on trees the wood of which was nearly dead by midsummer.
In Orchard 16 the pistillate flowers were described as medium or numerous on the following varieties: Barr's Zellernuss and the Winkler hazel.
Three hundred and ninety-two bore pistillate flowers and 74 of these would probably have had full crops had they been pollinated.
However, only those in which the number of pistillate flowers was described as medium or numerous will be recorded here.
Little, red, forked tongues are thrust out by the pistillate flowers to catch the golden dust when it is flying through the air, and thus to set seed.
The pistillate trees hang out red clusters of winged seeds below the opening leaf clusters.
One tree may be deep red throughout, having only pistillate flowers.
This is the flower arrangement of all the oaks; staminate and pistillate flowers on the new shoots, separate and very different from each other, but always close together, and always both kinds on each tree.
The pistillate flowers are pinkish-purple and almost hidden, just back of the tips of the upper twigs.
Flowers staminate and pistillate on separate trees, in drooping clusters rather earlier than the leaves.
Flowers monoecious on the same branch, the staminate ones in spikes, and the pistillate ones in pairs below.
Staminate andpistillate flowers are usually found on the same tree, as in the Oaks, Birches, Chestnut, etc.
Flowers monoecious, both staminate and pistillate in catkins, usually insignificant and unnoticeable.
Flowers yellowish, rather small, somewhat dioecious; the staminate ones urn-shaped with mouth nearly closed; the pistillate ones more open.
With both pistillate and staminate flowers on the same plant, 25.
Flowers staminate and pistillate on separate trees (dioecious), in elongated catkins in early spring.
Fruit, scarlet berries the size of currants, forming continuous clusters on every branch and twig, but found only on the pistillate plants.
Flowers dioecious; staminate ones in catkins, pistillate ones either solitary or in clusters of a few each.
The staminate contain 8 to 20 stamens which produce an enormous amount of dusty yellow pollen, some of which gets carried by wind to the protruding stigmas of the pistillate flowers.
The flowers, which appear in early summer, are in pendulous, slender yellowish catkins, which bear a number of staminate flowers with a few pistillate flowers at the base.
Fertile, capable of producing fruit; as a pistillate flower; applied also to a pollen-bearing stamen.
With suchpistillate varieties as the Golden Defiance, Champion, Spring-dale, and Crescent, we have as robust motherhood as we require.
Its introduction made a great sensation in the fruit world, and the fact of its being a pistillate gave rise to no end of discussion.
Of late years, I have used but two or three kinds ofpistillate plants, and they are a combination of excellence.
Either of the last two if left alone would be barren; the male flowers are always so, but the pistillate or female flowers, if fertilized with pollen from perfect-flowered plants, produce fruit.
In rare instances, strawberry flowers are found which possess stamens without pistils, and these are called male blossoms; far more often varieties exist producing pistils only, and they are named pistillate kinds.
In this country, we have pistillate varieties, or those that are wholly destitute of stamens.
The seeds from the pistillate only are used, and when the fruit is ripened, these seeds are slightly dried and placed between two pieces of ice for about two weeks.
It is a question whether, except for the purposes of propagation, pistillate varieties should be preserved and sent out.
Polygamous, when the flowers are some of them perfect, and some staminate or pistillate only.
Androgynous, having both staminate and pistillate flowers in the same cluster.
One of the grains younger, enlarged; seen to be a pistillate flower with calyx becoming fleshy.
The Longworth Prolific strawberry has both staminate and pistillate elements.
In cleft grafting walnuts is it necessary to use scions with only a leaf bud, or with staminate or pistillate buds?
This seedling tree, however, had a great many pistillate blossoms, which received pollen from the neighboring variety that was prolific in staminate bloom.
This will, I think, help to fertilize the pistillate or nutlet blossoms on many of the trees.
Three years ago some pistillate chinkapin flowers which had been covered with paper bags, were left unpollenized because I did not have pollen enough to go round.
In order to make sure that no pollen had been carried in by any sort of insect, I made check experiments last year, covering pistillate flowers so carefully that there could be no question about their having received no pollen.
One author states in the 'Phytologist' volume 3 page 703 that he covered with bell-glasses some cowslips, primroses, etc.
But they emit a different odour, and perhaps their nectar may have a different taste.
If we take the ten legitimate unions together, and the ten illegitimate unions together, we shall find that 29 per cent of the flowers fertilised in a legitimate manner yielded capsules, these containing on an average 27.
The cowslip is habitually visited during the day by the larger humble-bees (namely Bombus muscorum and hortorum), and at night by moths, as I have seen in the case of Cucullia.
Professor Henslow had previously transplanted into his garden a cowslip, which completely changed its appearance during the following year, and now resembled an oxlip.
The first of these was identical in every character with its parent.
It is one of the first shrubs to blossom, the staminate flowers hanging in slender, graceful yellowish-brown catkins, while the pistillate flowers are little points of purplish-red protruding from the buds.
In the case of hybrids the species first named is the pistillate parent.
I do not recall years in which the pines have failed to put forth both staminate and pistillate blossoms.
Then they were wee golden-green buds of pistillate flowers, set high on the uppermost branch tips that the pollen from the tree's own staminate blooms might miss them in its flight down the wind and thus avoid in breeding.
Broadview and Lancaster both blossom here in mid-season and, since both have a rather long period of producing pistillate blossoms, they seldom fail to produce a crop when properly pollenized.
In the two years during which the writer has observed the tree, the greater part of the staminate bloom has preceded the pistillate by several days.
I have one of his trees with staminate blooms only, no pistillate blooms.
The flowers appear normal, but we have never been able to make a cross with its pollen, nor to effect fertilization of its pistillate flowers.
It, like Franquette, demands a late pollenizer, but the pistillate blossoms are simply not there.
They are not sterile, because the pistillate flowers are normal and so is the pollen produced by the staminate flowers.
The black walnut produces a pistillate flower at the end of the present season's growth.
In nearly all aspects excepting the nut itself, the tree favors its pistillate parent.
Persian walnuts are self-pollenizing if pistillate and staminate blossoms occur at the same time, but such usually is not the case.
Mayette in Virginia produces a fine, healthy, vigorous tree, but it refuses to produce pistillate blossoms.
This warm spell was followed by a fairly cool weather and considerable rain, which delayed the opening of the pistillate flowers, consequently the pollen dried and was lost before the pistil was receptive.
It's just a question of inability of the pollen to fertilize the pistillate flowers on the same variety.
Like the Mayette, itspistillate blossoms appear ten days or more after the staminate blossoms and self-pollination is not effected.
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
Diœcious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pistillate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
