| It is also called the Cork Tree, as an inferior cork is processed from its corky bark. |
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| Some varieties, for example Riesling, have corky lenticels scattered over the skin. |
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| When the cup-shaped fruits open, the seeds drop into the water and, buoyed by their corky coats, are carried by the current. |
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| The juncture between leaf stem and tree branch slowly seals itself off, forming a corky layer called the abscission zone. |
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| A spongy or corky material fills the base of the perigynia in these and related Carex species. |
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| Two trunks grew close, one sprouting strange corky warts and the other deeply furrowed. |
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| When the melting pot is finally empty, you are left with weird, corky bark which itself is a talking point. |
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| It consists of cutin, a waxy, water-repellent substance allied to suberin, which is found in the cell walls of corky tissue. |
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| Why do some of my apples have corky, brown blotches on the surface? |
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| When a cork is contaminated with TCA it makes the wine that comes into contact with it stink and taste bad and we say the wine is corked or corky. |
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| Feeding puncture sites on the fruit of sensitive cultivars may cause a corky wound or malformation of the fruit. |
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| The solution can be applied to the basal part of standing brush and young trees during any time of the year, prior to formation of corky bark. |
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| They may coalesce resulting in stem die-back or the formation of corky internodal regions. |
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| The surface becomes black and corky giving the scab like appearance after which the disease was named. |
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| They are corky and covered by a velvety olive-green growth due to the conidial stage. |
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| As lesions develop, the epidermis ruptures and the lesions become spongy or corky. |
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| Most damaged fruits drop before harvest, those remaining on the tree showing corky scars and deep indentations. |
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| Then, first along the adaxial side of the midrib and later on the other framework veins, whitish corky tissue forms which later becomes brown. |
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| As the potatoes grow, the spots may expand and turn corky and necrotic. |
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| These pests cause cloudy spot, a condition characterized by white or yellow spots or patches on tomatoes and white corky tissue beneath these chlorotic surface blemishes. |
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| She knew she wanted to play corky in Bound, but her management wanted her to have nothing to do with it. |
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| It has been widely suggested that phellem, a corky outer layer derived from the cork cambium may function as aerenchyma, but until now no-one had tested that hypothesis. |
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| The texture of the mature perianth of the Salicornioideae may be soft and characterized as membranous, pithy or chartaceous or hardened, appearing crustaceous, corky or woody. |
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| He brought elegance to low comedy, and low comedy gave him the corky common-man touch that made him a great star. |
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| In the second season a tall, branched, leafy stem arises to bear clusters of minute green flowers that develop into brown corky fruits commonly called seedballs. |
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| The cell walls of the endodermis possess a woody and corky band, called the casparian strip, around all the cell walls except those facing toward the axis and the surface of the root or stem. |
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| The affected tissues are moderately firm and corky. |
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| These symptoms include a considerable enlargement of midribs and lateral veins, the presence of light corky tissue along swollen veins which then turns dark brown. |
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| The gills are never corky or woody and only slightly fleshy, usually arid and toughish. |
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| Alone once more in his room, Corky was frantically repacking his steamer trunk with renewed determination to quit the household in which he had unwittingly become entangled. |
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| Now the town council wants Corky to write and direct a musical based on the town's 150-year history for the upcoming sesquicentennial celebration. |
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