The maples have lost their fleecy white softness, for the staminate flowers which were so beautiful in March have withered now.
In the case of the hepatica acutiloba, however, it has been found that staminate flowers grow on one plant and pistillate flowers on another, hence insects are essential to the perpetuation of this species.
The male, or staminate tassels were carefully removed each day before maturity and, to ward off undesired foreign pollen, a cloth tent was used to cover the bush in addition to bagging many of the flowering branches.
Only a few of the staminate blossoms that were well covered under snow developed perfectly and the result was a very small crop of nuts on most of the varieties, but all the varieties had some, even those more or less frozen plants.
The staminate flowers, or catkins, come from last year's wood.
If it is androgynous, the staminate part drops off, or withers.
It bears very sparingly, but it's a very large nut, and I wondered why it was always so spare, and I caught it blooming in December, staminate blossoms in December this year.
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.
It absolutely is hopeless as a pollinizer for anything, because it loses its staminate blossoms by Christmas.
They are not sterile, because the pistillate flowers are normal and so is the pollen produced by the staminate flowers.
Persian walnuts are self-pollenizing if pistillate and staminate blossoms occur at the same time, but such usually is not the case.
Like the Mayette, its pistillate blossoms appear ten days or more after the staminate blossoms and self-pollination is not effected.
I know this is the result because when the Helmick hybrid bloomed its cluster containing eighteen nutlets would have perished for want of pollen to fertilize them because it had produced no staminate blossoms of its own.
Some trees produce staminate flowers too early for proper pollination and thus do not yield a crop unless another good pollinator grows nearby.
Their pistillate and staminate blossoms mature at the same time.
Pistillate and Staminate blossoms mature at same time in the best varieties, insuring perfect fertilization and productivity.
Three or four male plants (with staminate flowers) are grown in an acre patch to supply the necessary pollen.
Some authorities state, however, that the female plants develop enough staminateflowers to effect pollination.
The spikes, especially the uppermost, usually have contracted bases when the staminate flowers are borne below the pistillate ones, and empty scales at the top when the staminate flowers are borne at the summit.
Trees, with alternate pinnate leaves, no stipules, and monoecious flowers, the staminate in aments.
Involucre surrounding many staminate flowers (each of a single naked stamen) and one pistillate flower (a 3-lobed pistil).
Staminate flowers forming one or more terminal linear or club-shaped spikes (often pistillate at base or apex).
Staminate spike minute, wholly or partially concealed in the head; leaves always very narrow; radical spikes often present.
Terminal spike club-shaped and androgynous with the staminate flowers below (very rarely all staminate in n.
Glumes of the pistillate flowers more rigid and almost keeled; stigmas very long, plumose; the staminate glumes smaller and somewhat rounded on the back.
In 1937, the oldest of these trees produced staminate bloom for the first time.
On one of these plants, about one-foot high, I found staminate bloom which I consider unusual after only two seasons' growth.
We have not named this variety as yet, although it has borne both staminate and pistillate bloom, it has never borne any ripe nuts.
This same plant produced both staminate and pistillate blossoms very abundantly for several seasons but it did not set any nuts in spite of the many wild hazels growing nearby which gave it access to pollen.
Usually, after one day of exposure to bright sunlight, the staminateblooms will expand and begin to shed their pollen.
In the spring of 1940, three of these hybrids had pistillate flowers but no staminate blooms.
In order to have pollen available at the proper time, it is necessary to cut a few filbert branches which bear staminate blooms and store them in a dark, cold place to prevent the pollen from ripening too soon.
Like most chestnuts this one has to be pollinated by taking the staminate bloom from a dwarfed chestnut nearby whose bloom coincides with the blossoming of the female flowers of this Chinese hybrid.
We have two or three cases of male sterility in chestnut but in these no stamens are formed in the individual staminate flower.
If the pollen does not take hold, the spikes of the staminate blooms are sure to continue pink for a long time.
Many of our best nut trees, from man's point of view, have inherent faults such as the inability of the staminate bloom of the Weschcke hickory to produce any pollen whatsoever, as has been scientifically outlined in the treatise by Dr.
If the wild hazel is to be used as the female, or mother, of the cross, it is necessary to pick off all the male blossoms, or staminate blooms.
I had the honor of being elected president of that venerable organization and succeeded myself thereafter for the next five years) I mentioned this abortive staminate bloom of my hickory to my friend, Dr.
Seemingly they have not been hardy although they have grown large enough to produce both staminateand pistillate blooms; they have never winter killed back to the ground, however.
The greater number of these insects were of the species Diodyrhynchus byturoides, a weevil which destroys the staminate blossoms of coniferous trees.
Attached on the outside was a small staminate cone of a species of Pinus.
The most abundant vegetable material interwoven consists of the staminate catkins and bud scales of Quercus emoryi.
So far, it has been out of the question to hazard a reasonably safe assumption as to the staminate parent of all particular crosses by merely studying the botanical characteristics of the butterjap offspring.
Crosses in which the Persian walnut is the staminate or pollen producing parent may sometimes occur but if so, they have never come to the attention of the writer.
The best way is to cultivate both types in alternate rows and to cut off the staminate panicles a few days before they open their first flowers.
Proliferation of the inflorescence is very common and changes in the position of staminate and pistillate flowers are not rare.
Of course they cannot bear seed, and so it is with the sterile maize, which never produces any seed-spikes or staminate flowers.
Secondly, it is quite indifferent, how the two types are combined, or which of them is chosen as pistillate and which as staminate parent.
Each cluster has from 13-15 flowers, of which some are staminate and borne on stalks, while others are pistillate and nearly sessile.
But the most curious fact is that it is only observed in staminate specimens; pistillate trees have not been found, although often sought for.
I don't know how to advise them to overcome this difficulty of the early staminate bloom and the winter killing.
This year, however, he said that during a warm spell in the winter the staminate bloom came out and was killed, and there were no nuts on the trees.
Many of the European hazels that have been brought to this country, I find, do not bear for the reason that they flower so early that the staminate flowers are caught by frost--not the pistillate.
Most all of them bloomed when two years old--the staminate but not the pestillate blossoms.
Its staminate flowers come out too early in Connecticut.
How well I remember the disappointment and wrath of people who bought the plants at a high price, and set them out with no staminate varieties near to fertilize the pistillate blossoms.
The blossom of the Jewell contains pistils only, and will produce no fruit unless a staminate variety is planted near.
All danger of barrenness in pistillate kinds is removed absolutely by planting staminate sorts in the same bed.
This has been due mainly to winter injury, resulting either in the killing of the staminate catkins by cold, or of the developing catkins by late spring freezes and frosts.
Oftentimes the catkins of the Persians dry up, fail to shed pollen when the pistillate flowers are receptive or fail to produce staminate flowers.
At the time of blossoming, these pistil-leaves of the young cone diverge, and the pollen, so abundantly shed from the staminate blossoms, falls directly upon the exposed ovules.
Androecium= is a technical name for the staminate system of a flower (that is, for the stamens taken together), which it is sometimes convenient to use.
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.
Andro-dioecious, flowers staminateon one plant, perfect on another.
Within, tiny pistillate florets are seated around the base, while on the staminateplants the inflorescence extends higher.
Some they transfer, of course, from the larger staminate flowers to the smaller pistillate ones as they crawl over one umbel of the carrion-flower, then alight on another.
From Pennsylvania and Arizona, north to Nova Scotia and British Columbia, its amaranthine flowers are displayed from July to September, the staminate and the pistillate heads on distinct plants.
To them flies carry pollen from the staminateflorets covering the rest of the spadix.
Staminate and pistillate clusters on different shrubs; the former almost round at first, the latter conspicuous only when seeding; then their pappus is white, and about 1/3 in.
The flowering spurge, having its staminate and pistillate flowers distinct, depends upon flies, its truest benefactors, to transfer pollen from the former to the latter.
Another distinguishing feature is that its small, greenish-white staminate flowers grow on long, very slender pedicels; whereas the solitary fertile flowers are much nearer the stern.
The few hermaphrodite florets have their styles protruding from the start, and incoming insects leave pollen brought from staminate florets on the early-maturing stigmas.
The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.
Defn: Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Trioecia.
The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins.
A small genus of tropical cucurbitaceous plants having white flowers, the staminate borne in racemes, and large fruits with a dry fibrous pericarp.
Staminate flowers not sufficiently developed in the bud to be apparent.
These last are incipient staminate flowers, sufficiently developed for recognition.
Leaves and staminate flowers in internodal position, the primary leaves along the whole length of the internode, subtending secondary leaf-fascicles on the apical, staminate flowers on the basal part.
Staminate catkins are in crowded clusters, capitate or elongate (figs.
Flowers diclinous, the pistillate taking the place of long shoots, the staminate taking the place of dwarf shoots.
The staminate flower--its constant basal position on the internode and its compact clusters.
After pollination the pistillate flower closes and becomes the conelet, the staminate flowers withering and falling away.
Such flower-bearing buds are characteristic of the Hard Pines in distinction from the Soft Pines whose staminate flowers cannot be identified in the bud.
The staminate flowers of some Hard Pines (resinosa, sylvestris, etc.
Both staminate and pistillate buds of filberts above the snow were practically all destroyed.
Best of all varieties called seedless, but the large staminate tree nearby spoils that feature.
There are times when the pollen of the staminate plant is all shed before the pistillate gets ready.
I have one Major pecan on shagbark that is over twenty-five feet high that has a very healthy appearance and that has shown staminate bloom for two or three years.
This had a full crop of flowers this year, both staminate and pistillate.
Trees are of two kinds, male and female, one bearing staminate and the other pistillate flowers.
The flowers appear in May, brightening the even color of the shiny leaves with their pink or brown staminate clusters two or three inches wide.
They are pollinated by the wind, which sifts them with golden pollen dust, abundant in the staminate catkins clustered on the same tree.
In mid-June the flowers appear, the staminate in profuse clusters against the silvery leaf-linings, bright red, on the under sides of the platforms.
At the bases of the new shoots cluster the staminate catkins, in early June.
They also delight in gathering the long, red caterpillar-like catkins of the staminate flowers, the pollen bearers, from the sterile trees.
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.
Its fresh spring foliage is lightened by the pale yellow of the globular staminate flowers and warmed by the rosy tips of the cone flowers.
Its red-brown wood, furrowed bark and the red staminate flowers justify its name.
Most of them the result of placing bitternut hickory pollen on staminate butternut flowers.
Grafted upon the stock of a staminatecommon persimmon.
Then in winter the trees themselves break forth in bloom, myriads of small four-sided staminate cones crowd the ends of the slender sprays, coloring the whole tree, and when ripe dusting the air and the ground with golden pollen.
The staminate cones are seen growing straight downward from the under side of the young branches in lavish profusion, making fine purple clusters amid the grayish-green foliage.
The staminate cones of all the coniferae are beautiful, growing in bright clusters, yellow, and rose, and crimson.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staminate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
