nectariferous

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Corolla bell-shaped, 5-cleft; the lobes convolute in the bud; the tube furnished with 5 longitudinal linear appendages opposite the lobes, which cohere by their middle, while their edges are folded inward, forming a nectariferous groove.

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

Moreover there has been no off-hand, untimely destruction of the nectariferous blossoms of millions of trees and shrubs.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

So are all Nectaries, whether hollow spurs, sacs, or other concavities in which nectar is secreted, and all nectariferous glands.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Petals 5, small and narrow, raised on a slender claw, at the summit of which is a nectariferous hollow.

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

The disk is hypogynous with five nectariferous glands which are alternate with the stamens.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.