They were shaped like upside-down bells, with long straight stalks, the petals at the top open toward the sun.

The leaves alternate between having 5 and 7 soft, handlike lobes on straight, branchless stalks.

There are also a few ivies and maples, whose full-size leaves look silly on straight but abbreviated stalks.

It grew in a straight stalk with stiff, narrow leaves angling sharply upward, roughly three meters high.

Choose asparagus with tightly furled tips and firm straight stalks.

Its straight stalk was the symbol of the sage, in that adversity could always bend it but it could never break it.

Below was the straight stalk, a foot or more thick, and above the dreadful bloom.

It seemed to be another plant with straight stalks clothed by many small, round, bright leaves that glittered in the sunlight like golden coins.

As the plants grow, they are pinched three times a year to prevent them from forming straight stalks.

There, a straight stalk with orange leaves around the base, fleshy leaves with knife-sharp edges to discourage herbivores.