leaf-like structure with a flower in its axil or, in COMPOSITAE - daisy family, in a whorl round flower head bracteole a secondary bract usually on the flower stalk or, in UMBELLIFERAE - fit weed family bract-like structure at the base of a secondary umbel bulbil small bulb found in leaf axils or amoung flowers
Modified, usually small, leaflike structure often positioned beneath a flower or inflorescence. What are often taken to be the petals of flowers are sometimes bracts for example, the large, colourful bracts of poinsettias or the showy white or pink bracts of dogwood blossoms
At the base of many flowers, just below where the petal connects with the stem is the bract Not all flowers have these modified leaves, but they are common and are usually smaller than the other leaves And, they are usually green, but may instead be conspicuous, imitating a petal --as they do in the poinsettia
a modified leaf of an inflorescence or flower, often colored and usually mistaken for a petal: the typical case is the bougainvillea where the so-called flowers are indeed bracts
A more or less modified leaf subtending a flower or belonging to an inflorescence In section Pseudothymbra the bracts are larger and noticably different from the leaves bracteole A secondary bract, as one upon the pedical of a flower
A leaf-like structure associated with flowers and fruits [To return to previous page, click your browser's BACK button then scroll through the page to your last location]