Noticeable and Uncovered Shapes: Dark Season Fieldwork

Linnaean Types

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with 5 valves and 10 chambers

awl-shaped, erect

undivided, bent back

thread-like

perpendicular posture

not headed, nor thickened at the tips

with margined fruit

with twisted fruit

with uninflated fruit

with attenuated fruit

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with net-like fruit

with drupe-like fruit

with single valved fruit

with many capsuled fruit

with elastic fruit

with jointed fruit

with fruit dehiscent at the side

bundled, sparse and rayed

sparse and radical

foliation coiled

3

radication, fibrous and bundled

stipulation, narrow/none/outspread

ramification, alternate

intorsion, coiled/tendrilled

inflorescence at the back, sessile / somewhat spiked, one-sided

foliation, rolled together, lyre-shaped

pubescence, hardly noticeable

placentation unchanged and uniquely inserted

slightly villious

scabrous

4

spindle-shaped

whorled, with bracts

lanceolate

pinnately cleft, with an uncovered shape

glandulation

gemmation

involucre

compound

hollow capsule

Silique: the ancients

A version of this text was presented at the Museum of Garden History, Lambeth, London, 2011

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