star-leaved

Upper Nakano is very beautiful, and in the autumn, when its myriads of star-leaved maples are scarlet and crimson, against a dark background of cryptomeria, among which a great white waterfall gleams like a snow-drift before it leaps into the black pool below, it must be well worth a long journey.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Jim was an indefatigable gatherer of vegetable products, and one thing which attracted him immensely was the branch of a tree which bore a number of star-leaved clusters, each leaf being feather-veined, and the stems carried numerous yellowish purple-spotted flowers, and also nuts about the size of pigeon eggs.

The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages Roger Thompson Finlay

It followed the shore of the creek a little way, and through the leafy screen we caught glimpses of Gadabout out in the stream, now with a cone-tipped branch of pine and again with a star-leaved limb of sweet gum for a foreground setting.

Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

Then there were the sweet-gums, fragrant and star-leaved, and the black-gum, tough, dark, and unpretending.

What Might Have Been Expected Frank Richard Stockton 1868

I glide like a shade amongst arborescent ferns, treading with unsteady feet the coloured marls and the particoloured clays; I lean for support against the trunks of immense conifers; I lie in the shade of sphenophylla (wedge-leaved), asterophylla (star-leaved), and lycopods, a hundred feet high.

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

All her pretty pictures, and little brackets, and her mother's stands and vases in the gray parlor, were hung with the lovely, wreathing, fairy stems of star-leaved, blossomy fern; and the sweet, dry scent was a perpetual subtle message.

The Other Girls 1865

It was a fuller telling of what the star-leaved ferns had told before.

The Other Girls 1865