Assertion: eucalyptus's leaf | /r/HasProperty | opposite
Facets:
value: often
type: DEGREE
value: in many species
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The first leaves are broad, without stalks, of a shining whitish-green and are opposite and horizontal, but after four or five years these are succeeded by others of a more ensiform or sword-shaped form, 6 to 12 inches long, bluish-green in hue, which are alternate and vertical, i.e. with the edges turned towards the sky and earth, an arrangement more suited to the climate and productive of peculiar effects of light and shade.
text: The leaves of the seedling, however, are quite the opposite.
text: In contrast, the leaves of seedlings are often opposite, sessile and glaucous, but many exceptions to this pattern exist.
text: Adult leaves are usually alternate and pendulous, glabrous, petioled, rarely opposite and sessile (without a petiole), but in many species the leaves in the juvenile phase are opposite and sessile.
text: Juvenile leaves, which are opposite and broadly lanceolate, 9 by 9 cm (3.5 by 3.5 in), may persist for more than a year (9).
text: Leaves on young trees and sucker shoots are usually opposite, developing to alternate ones as the tree matures.
text: The juvenile leaves of Eucalyptus saligna are opposite and/or alternate in arrangement, have an ovate to lanceolate shape and are generally 12 cm long and 5 cm wide.