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White vine-stems, left and down, decorate the margins and the initial V of this page in Life of Alphonso VI, King of Aragon and Naples, an Italian manuscript from c. 1460. A white vine-stem or white vine is a kind of border or initial decoration found in illuminated manuscripts and incunabula .
Originally a vignette was a design of vine-leaves and tendrils (vignette = small vine in French). [1] The term was also used for a small embellishment without border, in what otherwise would have been a blank space, such as that found on a title-page , a headpiece or tailpiece.
[3] [4] The neighborhood includes the Vine Area Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [5] [6] One of the oldest neighborhoods in Kalamazoo, the Vine has houses dating to the 1840s. [7] During the early 1900s, businesses in the Vine flourished, including a variety of grocery and retail spaces.
Thirty forms of fleuron have code points in Unicode.The Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks have three fleurons that the standard calls "floral hearts" (also called "aldus leaf", "ivy leaf", "hedera" and "vine leaf"); [7] twenty-four fleurons (from the pre-Unicode Wingdings and Wingdings 2 fonts) in the Ornamental Dingbats block and three more fleurons used in archaic languages are also ...
There are some tropical vines that develop skototropism, and grow away from the light, a type of negative phototropism. Growth away from light allows the vine to reach a tree trunk, which it can then climb to brighter regions. [6] The vine growth form may also enable plants to colonize large areas quickly, even without climbing high.
On one hand, the name "meander" recalls the twisting and turning path of the Maeander River in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) that is typical of river pathways.On another hand, as Karl Kerenyi pointed out, "the meander is the figure of a labyrinth in linear form".
The double disc and Z rod appears in the top border of the back of the Hilton of Cadboll stone where the left, right and bottom border depict vine-scrolls representing the True Vine. Paintings and icons of the True Vine show Christ at the top centre, so this may have been the meaning of the Pictish symbol. [citation needed]
Tiny buds on the vine start to swell and eventually shoots begin to grow from the buds. Buds are the small part of the vine that rest between the vine's stem and the petiole (leaf stem). Inside the buds contain usually three primordial shoots. These buds appear in the summer of previous growth cycle green and covered in scales.