The folded spathe is of leather-like substance, rough, almost corky in texture; also variously marked and tinted.
They are invisible until the folded part of the spathe is opened; they are numerous, arranged in a dense broad ring, sessile, and nearly black.
During the short period that the flower is open the lower part of the spathe or belly becomes filled with all kinds of flies, being held by the spear-like hairs.
When the spathe opens, it does so quickly, bending more than half its length outwards, the division looking upwards.
On opening the pointed spathe or floral envelope, a club-like mass will be noted arising from its base.
The smell from spathe and flowers is pungent and very subtle.
Julius Schmidt, who is not long since dead, and was the director of the Observatory at Athens, a number of these plants grow in the Valley of Cephisus, and attain a height of as much as two meters, the spathe alone measuring nearly one meter.
Spathe elongated, convolute throughout or with a dilated blade above.
Flowers strictly dioecious; the sterile numerous and crowded in a head on a conical receptacle, enclosed in an ovate at length 3-valved spathe which is borne on a very short scape; stamens mostly 3.
Spathe incomplete and distant, merely a leaf-sheath investing the lower part of the slender scape, and bearing a small and imperfect bract-like blade.
Spathe surrounding or subtending the spadix; flowers naked, i.
The projecting ledge overhead prevents them from using their wings; the passage between the ledge and the spathe is far too narrow to permit flight.
Immediately on the appearance of the new flower spathe the toddy maker ascends the tree after the manner before described, or, as on the Malabar coast, by cutting a train of notches in the tree trunk.
He then makes a puncture in the stalk of the spathe with his toddy knife, raps the part well with the handle, and then hangs a chatty pot to receive the juice as it drains out during the night.
Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl.
Such blossoms consist therefore either of a spathe only, as in the Aroideæ, or of a calyx--calycine plants.
The wheat-seed or grain is none other than a grass-leaf with a short spathe and very dense, highly farinaceous, lamellæ.
The indusium is the upraised epidermis, which opens in a spathose manner; it consequently stands in the signification perhaps of the floral spathe or involucrum.
The germ of the seed or embryo, namely, radicle, cotyledons and plumule, is therefore only the quinary pinnate leaf without the spathe or testa.
Indeed, Guapo used the first spathe he laid his hands upon for this very purpose.
The spathe which contains the flowers is also put to many uses.
After the fruit has ripened the spadix will be found to have grown considerably, the spathe meantime having decayed.
The spathe is not like that of the wild turnip or calla lily, to which family this plant also belongs, but the edges are rolled inward, completely hiding the spadix.
Round this some leaves are stuffed, and the whole is wrapped up in a palmspathe and dried in the smoky hut.
The lid is covered with the brown leathery spathe of the Areca palm, which is impervious to water, and the whole box is neat, strong, and well finished.
Then the abortive stamens, which prevented the escape of the insects, wither; and, at the same time, the neck of the spathe relaxes.
After fertilisation has taken place the spathe and the spadix soon wither away, and the ovaries develop into a cluster of large berry-like fruits, each containing a few seeds.
A beautiful, waxy-white, spreading spathe is often mistaken for the flower.
In moist woods you will find Jack, represented by the spadix, looking out at you from his pulpit, represented by the spathe of the flower.
The spathe is light green, more or less striped with brown, especially on the inside; the spadix is also green and has the tiny flowers clustered about its base.
As you will see by the opposite picture, there is no protective spathe for the golden floral club.
It is not uncommon to find them with the shell-like spathe above ground and the pollen fully ripened even in January, although from the latter part of February to the first of May is the usual flowering season.
American aroid herb (Symplocarpus foetidus) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves.
Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl.
In Richardia æthiopica one or more leaves become occasionally as white as the spathe is usually.
The spathe of Arum maculatum is sometimes represented by a stalked leaf similar to that which occurs, under ordinary circumstances, in Spathiphyllum, but in which genus the spadix is more or less adherent to the leaf-like spathe.
There were the same golden, erect spadix, and the same ivory-white spathe rolled back in the very curve of the spathe of the calla lily; but the flower was not one quarter the size of the calla.
This spathe is a bract-like sheath, of an imperfect tubular form.
Whilst each grave was being opened one of the tamiluanas stood at the head and fanned it with a bunch of "devil-expelling" leaves, and another man kept in readiness a palm-spathe and piece of white calico.
Spadix and spathe of the Indian Turnip; the latter cut through below.
For crushing the flower-buds within the spathe of the palm, Billavas generally use a stone, and the Halepaiks a bone.
There is a belief that, if the spathe is beaten with the bone of a buffalo which has been killed by a tiger, the yield of toddy will, if the bone has not touched the ground, be greater than if an ordinary bone is used.
The insects visit the plant in large numbers, attracted by the foetid smell, and act as carriers of the pollen from onespathe to another.
As the fruit ripens the spathe withers, and the brilliant red berries are exposed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spathe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blade; bract; flag; frond; leaf; leaflet; needle; petal; pile; spear; spire
