bract

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The real flowers are small, yellow and appear at the tip of the stem surrounded by the bract.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023

Visitors get to see what the wildling looks like, a tall, leggy bush with bract clusters isolated at the end of long branches.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2017

Instead it is achieved by breeding to increase the red pigmentation in the layers of bract cells.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2017

A dogwood poinsettia that McLaughlin grew from seed he received from Le Duc is central to the exhibit, though it looks pretty prosaic — a lanky vase-shaped shrub with small white bract clusters.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2017

A small thin scale or bract, becoming dry and membranous.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa