The spiky, iconic Canadian maple leaf. A large, lush Florida palm leaf. Thin aspen leaves rustling in the crisp Colorado air. You can probably recall many different leaf shapes from many different ...

The team investigated how the shape of the leaves of deciduous trees affects how they fall, using an "automated sedimentation apparatus" to conduct 100 free fall experiments a day on biomimetic ...

Turkey oak gets its name from leaf shape. ... The leaves typically have a prominent bristle tip at the end of each lobe, although sometimes these are worn away as the season progresses.

Most have interesting leaf shapes and produce a profusion of colorful flowers nearly year-round. One example, the wax begonia, or Begonia semperflorens-cultorum, makes a wonderful bedding plant.

Most leaves fell quickly, — even lobed oak leaves — within 10 percent of the speed of the fastest possible shape (a circle, which fell in their tank at 1.37 centimeters per second), while the ...

The preference of Heliconius butterflies for certain leaf shapes is innate, ... Your name. Note. Your email address is used only to let the recipient know who sent the email.

Modifications to a LATE MERISTEM IDENTITY1 gene are responsible for the major leaf shapes of Upland cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum L.). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2016 ...

It is the combination of both effects that leads to a complex leaf with its subunits. Complex leaf with subunits. To test their ideas about leaf shape, the researchers then switched the RCO and STM ...

A study suggests how mechanical forces influence the shapes of plant leaves and flower petals. The genetic and biomolecular mechanisms that give rise to complex 3D shapes in plant organs have been ...