Leafless

Just outside my home-office window, I noticed a bird’s nest about 4 feet high in some leafless shrubbery on a cold, winter’s day.

There is little doubt that Jefferson would have found any one of these realities an unacceptable imposition of tyranny and their combined flourishing as demonstrable evidence that the “tree of liberty” is leafless and dying.

Browntail moths, which can cause allergic relations in humans due to their toxic tiny hairs, have settled into nests high up in leafless trees for the winter.

February is the best month to prune crepe myrtles, as the trees are leafless.

Gastrodia Lohitensis, the leafless orchid, was found by Krishna Chowlu and the BSI team.

Aloe flowers are tubular, frequently yellow, orange, pink, or red, and are borne, densely clustered and pendant, at the apex of simple or branched, leafless stems.

Each bulb generally produces just two or three linear leaves and an erect, leafless scape (flowering stalk), which bears at the top a pair of bract-like spathe valves joined by a papery membrane.

Each bulb produces one or two leafless stems 30–60 cm tall, each of which bears a cluster of two to twelve funnel-shaped flowers at their tops.

In the late 1800s, home-made white Christmas trees were made by wrapping strips of cotton batting around leafless branches creating the appearance of a snow-laden tree.

James Frazer suggests "It was perhaps a natural thought that the approach of winter should drive the poor, shivering, hungry ghosts from the bare fields and the leafless woodlands to the shelter of the cottage".

One or two leafless stems arise from the bulb in the dry ground in late summer (March in its native habitat and August in USDA zone 7 ).

PMR indicates some degree of powdery mildew resistance; afila types, also called semi-leafless, have clusters of tendrils instead of leaves. citation Unless otherwise noted these are so called dwarf varieties which grow to an average height of about 1m.

Some euphorbias have leafless, rounded bodies adapted to water conservation similar to those of globular cacti, but characters such as the structure of their flowers make it clear that the two groups are not closely related.

They only know to wait at a tree, and there is indeed a leafless one nearby.