Bullatus
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Also known as: bullata, bullatum
A texture epithet describing a leaf surface that is raised into rounded blisters or puckers between the veins — like the surface of a Savoy cabbage. The bullate texture is created by the veins growing more slowly than the intervening tissue. Appears as bullatus (masculine), bullata (feminine), or bullatum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin bullatus, meaning "furnished with bubbles" or "blistered," from bulla (a bubble, stud, amulet).
Example
“Cotoneaster bullatus (bullate cotoneaster) has the characteristically puckered, blister-textured leaves between its veins, and Primula bullata has the same raised, cushion-like surface texture the epithet so vividly describes.”