Crossword-Solution: FRONDESCENCE 12 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

The cane-fields are broad sheets of beautiful gold-green; and nearly as bright are the masses of _pomme-cannelle_ frondescence, the groves of lemon and orange; while tamarind and mahoganies are heavily sombre.

This list does not include those very numerous cases in which this change is associated with more or less complete frondescence or leafy condition of the petals.

These three groups will be found to include most of the forms under which frondescence of the clover blossoms occurs, but there are, of course, intermediate forms not readily to be grouped under either of the above heads.

The examination of the arrangement of the veins is often of assistance in determining this point; for instance, if, under ordinary circumstances, the venation of the petal be such as is characteristic of the sheath of the leaf, while in the green-coloured flower of the same species the venation is more like that which belongs to the blade of the leaf, the inference would, of course, be that the green colour was due to frondescence or phyllody.

The common honeysuckle, _Lonicera Periclymenum_, is one of these, and it is noticeable in this plant that the calyx remains unaffected--a circumstance which Morren says shows the distinctness of virescence from frondescence; for, in this instance, we have the most foliaceous portion of the flower remaining unchanged, while the corolla and other organs, usually less leaf-like in their nature, assume a green colour; but this may rather be attributed to the axial nature of the so-called adherent calyx.