catkins in English

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a flowering spike of trees such as willow and hazel. Catkins are typically downy, pendulous, composed of flowers of a single sex, and wind-pollinated.
Live oaks produce male flowers called catkins that bloom in hanging clusters.
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1. Wind carries pollen from male to female Catkins or from male Catkins to female flowers that take a different form (e.g., in

2. Don't you see the catkins swimming in the air?

3. Many trees bear Catkins, including willows, birches, and oaks

4. The bride and Katie carried beautiful preserved flowers from Catkins.

5. Hazel catkins Witches' broom Bluebells are indicators of ancient woodland.

6. Hazel Catkins look like alder and also house the male flowers

7. Their flowers are unisexual, and the male ones are borne in erect catkins.

8. She smoked cheap cigars, and the ash lay on her cardigans like catkins.

9. Catkin A type of flowering shoot (see racemose inflorescence) in which the axis, which is often long, bears many small stalkless unisexual flowers.Usually the male Catkins hang down from the stem; the female Catkins are shorter and often erect

10. Most plants with Catkins are adapted for wind pollination, the male flowers producing large quantities of pollen

11. Catkins are typically found on trees which are wind pollinated, such as oak, birch, willow, and hickory.

12. The Aspen Catkin: What Will Become of this Fuzzy Little Thing? Kara Rogers - April 13, 2011 Aspen Catkins

13. The flowers are catkins; the fruit is an acorn 2.5 cm long and 2 cm broad, in a shallow cup.

14. Just nuts about hazel! The common hazelnut, Corylus avellana, is great value, providing Cobnuts in September and decorative catkins in late winter.

15. Curculio feed primarily on succulent leaves, elongated clusters of male flowers called catkins, pistillate (female) flowers and young fruits of black walnut trees, but

16. ‘Some varieties shed pollen from the male Catkins before the female flowers are receptive, and so require pollen from another variety with a later pollen maturation date.’

17. Catkin (plural Catkins) ( botany ) A type of inflorescence , consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar