leafscars

Updated: May 4, 2025

When dry it is about the thickness of a thick knitting needle, swelling to the thickness of a quill when soaked in water. It is of uniform thickness, except near the leaf-bearing ends, which are thicker marked with numerous leafscars, or bare buds covered with scales, and often having attached the tattered remains of former leaves. B shows another piece enlarged to double linear size.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885