If we examine a blossom bud just before it opens we will see only the calyx.
In the buttercup and mustard the calyx is divided into separate parts called sepals.
The flowers usually have a calyx, and may have only stamens or carpels, or both.
We call this cloak the calyx, because when it opens it looks like a cup, and the word calyx means cup.
When the petals fall, the calyx is open and this is the time to spray.
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The cotyledons and corolla of a plant are worked on by an expansive force, while thecalyxand coronas are affected by a contractive force.
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Some seeds are starchy, and some have resinycalyxtubes while others have thick ones.
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Uninfested fruits were not entered by females except in the case of apple where they entered through thecalyx.
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Thecalyxwas excluded from this measurement as preliminary experiments indicated that very few of the insects attempted to feed on this structure.
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Most species are easily distinguished by their highly attractive, double inflorescences and imbricatecalyx-lobes.
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Veronica species were described as smooth/hairy because all seeds observed attached to the dog were enclosed in the hairycalyx.
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There are five petals which are deeply notched at the end, narrowed at the base and all go into an urn-shapedcalyx.
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Thecalyxof the flower is usually 1 centimeter long and very hairy, with 3 lobes that may appear to be triangular or obtuse.
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The flowers are pinkish-lavender, about.5in cm long, growing in whorls along the inflorescence, and held in a small oxblood-red five-pointed hairycalyx.
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Curling purple-veined white petals emerge from the tip of thecalyx.
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Itscalyxlobes are villous with an open navel that have styles which are of 1- 2 long.
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They consist of five petals, five stamens, and an entirecalyx.
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Thecalyxand the corolla are both pentamerous (with five lobes), petals are free while sepals are connate or united at the base.
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On the flowers, two of thecalyxlobes are longer, extending further than the petals.
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The three 0.8 to 1.2 centimeters long, sepals are fused, white, have fluffy hairs and the threecalyxteeth are unequal.
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