white petal

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white
adjective
uk
/waɪt/us
/waɪt/
of a colour like that of snow, milk, ...
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petal
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpet.əl/us
/ˈpet̬.əl/
any of the usually brightly coloured parts that together form most of ...
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(Definition ofwhiteandpetalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The inflorescence is a cyathium with scallopedwhitepetal-like appendages surrounding the actual flowers.
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Each flower is made up of millimeter long sepals and occasionally awhitepetal, although the petals are usually absent.
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Flowers are small (5-8 mm), five-merous, withwhitepetal-like sepals, and a superior ovary.
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The flowers emerge from summer through fall and are distinctive with two relatively large blue petals and one very reducedwhitepetal.
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At the center of the flower are six stamens with widewhitepetal-like filaments.
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There are usually no petals, but there occasionally appears a vestigialwhitepetal.
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There are sometimeswhitepetal-like appendages as well.
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The marginal flowers each have 1whitepetal, enlarged, and uniformly deeply 2-lobed.
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The inflorescence is a cyathium less than 2 millimeters wide, withwhitepetal-like appendages surrounding the actual flowers.
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It bears scallopedwhitepetal-like appendages arranged around the actual flowers.
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The flowers are small, dark purple, produced in a tight umbel that is surrounded by four conspicuouswhitepetal-like bracts 1-1.5 cm long.
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Flowers have white petals, which are pink toward the base of the adaxial surface.
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Several species have small heads of inconspicuous flowers surrounded by an involucre of large, typicallywhitepetal-like bracts, while others have more open clusters of petal-bearing flowers.
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The flowers are 20 mm diameter, with five white petals and 20 yellowish-white stamens; they are produced in corymbs 611 cm diameter in late spring.
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The flowers have four deeply notched white petals, and are borne an inch or two above the ground by a long stem.
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The large inflorescence is a dense, spikelike raceme of mustardlike flowers with white petals.
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The flower is up to 2.5 centimeters wide with white petals.
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The inflorescence is a cyme of 2 to 5 flowers, each with 5 pointed green sepals and 5 rounded white petals.
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The flowers are from 0.55 cm diameter, with five pink or white petals.
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