flower-stalk

In the case of broccoli, extra flower-stalk tissue develops, fuses into thick “spears,” and then goes on to produce clusters of small green flower buds.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

In cauliflower and its interestingly angular, green variant, romanesco, the stalk-production stage is extended indefinitely and forms a dense mass or “curd” of immature flower-stalk branches.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

The flower-stalk never attains a height of more than two or three inches, and the leaves are covered with reddish hairs, each of which has a drop of clammy fluid at its tip, making the whole appear as if spangled over with small diamonds.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The first is in kindling a fire to burn a run: a dead flower-stalk serves as a torch, and you can touch tussock after tussock literally [Greek text which cannot be reproduced] lighting them at right angles to the wind.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

In the case of broccoli, extra flower-stalk tissue develops, fuses into thick “spears,” and then goes on to produce clusters of small green flower buds.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

In cauliflower and its interestingly angular, green variant, romanesco, the stalk-production stage is extended indefinitely and forms a dense mass or “curd” of immature flower-stalk branches.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

He tried to climb the flower-stalk, in order to fetch the disk for her, but the stalk was too narrow for him to get a proper grip, and too tough for him to pull down.

Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983

Now the flower-stalk ascended, carrying the thyme up with it.

Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983

Besides the three leaves on each flower-stalk similar leaves grow from underground stems which creep along not far below the surface of the soil.

Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

The malformed flowers did not present anything peculiar in their outer parts, nor did the ovary, partially immersed within the expanded top of the flower-stalk and the calyx-tube, which is continuous with that organ, show externally any indication of the change within.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters