After the death of the growing point, small bunches of leaves develop in the older leaf axils.
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The main distinction between these habitats and water impounded by leaf axils is the presence of secreted plant fluids that digest organic material falling into the plant.
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Many of the moss clumps examined in the laboratory had significant quantities of sand, soil, and fine gravel within the axils of the leaves, and between their stems.
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The inflorescences are fascicles that are borne mainly at the ends of the branches, with buds initiated in the axils of leaves just before the latter are dropped.
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Tillandsia punctulata has mostly narrow leaves but with broader bases that are able to store small quantities of water in the axils.
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Male trees have white catkins that extend to 15to 20 and dangle from twigs at the axils of the leaves.
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Flowers occur in the upper leaf axils, drooping in bud and becoming erect as they bloom.
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The flowers are solitary in upper axils; they lack a calyx and have a pinkish-buff corolla with long, yellowish stigmas.
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They are borne in long, drooping, sessile or pedunculate catkins produced from buds formed in the axils of the leaves of the previous year.
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Their flowers are sessile and generally solitary, but sometimes in pairs in the axils of the upper leaves.
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It has irregular straggling branches and stiff twigs and long spines at the leaf axils.
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Flowers occur in a terminal cyme and sometimes in leaf axils.
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The inflorescence is a small, spherical flower head less than a centimeter wide located at the tip of the stem or in a leaf axils.
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Tubercules are four-sided, with latex and the axils have dense white wool.
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Flowers are borne in groups of 2 or 3 in the axils of the leaves.
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