The young plant is typical of brooms, clothed in narrow linear leaves which soon drop off leaving almost bare branches.

Opposite - Two structures, one on each opposite side of the stem, typically leaves, branches, or flower parts.

He flung himself down a side path, bursting through the overgrown vegetation, and leaving broken branches and a flurry of torn leaves in his wake.

The leaves, which had turned a beautiful sunlit orange in October, fell from the trees, leaving barren branches to meet the cold winds from the north.

Sometimes they left branches or stones in the path, seemingly by accident, that she might trip on in the dark.

Growth of leaves ceases, and eventually all the leaves fall, leaving dead branches, often with the dried-out flowering panicles still attached.

Lumbering removed the tree trunks, but left many flammable limbs, branches, and stumps behind.

No truck could get through those trees without leaving broken branches behind them and deep scars in the soft grass.

The trees had been cleaned of their autumn colors in a fifty-foot-wide circle, leaving only stark branches behind.

Trim up to three inches off the root end of the parsley stem, leaving branches and leaves intact.