To one side of them, a vividly green plant rose up out of the red desert, its slender stalk wreathed in broad leaves veined with pale-green spirals that reminded Riker of the arms of an opening wormhole.

For years I grew the honeysuckle Lonicera japonica Aureoreticulata on a west-facing wall, and its small oval leaves, heavily veined with deep yellow, gave me great pleasure.

Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.

He returned holding a fan-shaped growth that was dark purple - its fleshy leaves veined with green.

He began watching for a vine with leaves veined with purple and red; it had a pungent, peppery smell.