1.   At one end of a long, thin stem is wide, flat grip.

2.   Curry leaves are sold on their thin stems.

3.   The males grow on a thin stem and are longer and generally larger than the female flowers.

4.   There, its long thin stems gracefully bend over, creating an arching shower of lemon-yellow flowers that hover only two or three feet above underlying plants.

5.   That green strip that starts as a thin stem in the south and blossoms like a lotus flower into a delta reaching to the Mediterranean is basically Egypt.