membranaceous

Updated: June 14, 2025

And yet the name linden was writ large on those trees, on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing.

Frederick John Lazell - Some Winter Days in Iowa