The expedition arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1767, where there were trees with bright mauve and magenta bracts. This new genus was named Bougainvillea in honor of the expedition leader. At least five ...

Another, trillium (Trillium spp.), gets its name from three leaf-like bracts and a single flower with three petals. Trillium species come in a variety of colors. Because it is a fragile ephemeral ...

Beneath the spiky leaves, fresh artichokes are delicious harbingers of spring. Here’s how to cook them five ways, from steaming to grilling. Sonja Overhiser is a cookbook author and food writer ...

floral bracts, stems, leaves, tendrils, and seeds in plants. All these were pictured in the first 50 pages of the book; hundreds more images were liberally spread through the complete three volumes.

Based on dissection of the inflorescence into different bracts using a treatment that retained the phytoliths anatomical position, observations of inflorescence phytoliths types and distribution were ...