Crossword-Solution: BRACTS 6 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The fructification is attached to the stem by a thick stalk, which, in its upper part, bears a large number of spirally arranged bracts, forming collectively a kind of perianth and completely enclosing the essential organs of reproduction.

Thompson remarks that in the Pastime gooseberry “extra bracts are often attached to the sides of the fruit.”[124] The most interesting point in the history of the gooseberry is the steady increase in the size of the fruit.

The extreme points of some of the branchlets are rolled up so as to resemble the croziers or circinate vernation of ferns; the leaves or bracts, _a,_ supposed to belong to the same plant, are described by Dawson as having inclosed the fructification.

Thiselton Dyer) the upper bracts are enlarged and brightly coloured, no doubt for the same purpose as before, with the flowers suppressed.

Everywhere along thickets, fence-rows, etc., and several varieties cultivated; stems one to six feet high, furrowed; prickles strong and hooked; leaflets three to five, ovate or lance-ovate, pointed, their lower surface and stalks hairy and glandular, the middle one long-stalked and sometimes heart-shaped; flowers racemed, rather large, with short bracts; fruit oblong or cylindrical.