Exempel på axil

• After the death of the growing point, small bunches of leaves develop in the older leaf axils.

• The main distinction between these habitats and water impounded by leaf axils is the presence of secreted plant fluids that digest organic material falling into the plant.

• Many of the moss clumps examined in the laboratory had significant quantities of sand, soil, and fine gravel within the axils of the leaves, and between their stems.

• The inflorescences are fascicles that are borne mainly at the ends of the branches, with buds initiated in the axils of leaves just before the latter are dropped.

• Tillandsia punctulata has mostly narrow leaves but with broader bases that are able to store small quantities of water in the axils.

• Male trees have white catkins that extend to 15to 20 and dangle from twigs at the axils of the leaves.

• Flowers occur in the upper leaf axils, drooping in bud and becoming erect as they bloom.

• The flowers are solitary in upper axils; they lack a calyx and have a pinkish-buff corolla with long, yellowish stigmas.

• They are borne in long, drooping, sessile or pedunculate catkins produced from buds formed in the axils of the leaves of the previous year.

• Their flowers are sessile and generally solitary, but sometimes in pairs in the axils of the upper leaves.

• It has irregular straggling branches and stiff twigs and long spines at the leaf axils.

• Flowers occur in a terminal cyme and sometimes in leaf axils.

• The inflorescence is a small, spherical flower head less than a centimeter wide located at the tip of the stem or in a leaf axils.

• Tubercules are four-sided, with latex and the axils have dense white wool.

• Flowers are borne in groups of 2 or 3 in the axils of the leaves.