bracts

And the flowers are not really flowers at all but modified leaves called bracts, just like the bracts on the poinsettia.

unknown title 2009

The bracts are a brown color that resembles the leaf litter from which the reproductive stems emerge and cover the pinkish-purple colored buds and deep purple stems.

unknown title 2009

The bracts are a brown color that resembles the leaf litter from which the reproductive stems emerge and cover the pinkish-purple colored buds and deep purple stems.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

The bracts are a brown color that resembles the leaf litter from which the reproductive stems emerge and cover the pinkish-purple colored buds and deep purple stems.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

The bracts are a brown color that resembles the leaf litter from which the reproductive stems emerge and cover the pinkish-purple colored buds and deep purple stems.

R&D Mag - News 2009

Etruscan times down to those of the Scalas, the fashion of armour held, among the nations who wished to make themselves terrible in aspect, of putting cut plates or 'bracts' of metal, like dragons 'wings, on each side of the crest.

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

'bracts' by botanists, a good word, from the Latin 'bractea,' meaning a piece of metal plate, so thin as to crackle.

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

Check the plant's flowers, which are the small yellowish buds in the center of the bright red petals that are in fact leaves or bracts.

The poinsettia, Mexico's Christmas gift to the world 2009

It stared back, living but lifeless, bracts raised as in a shrug: Now what do I do?

Substitute Fred Osuna 2011

The most dangerous parts are on the bracts that encircle the base of each flower.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011