| 1. | Their surface is densely scurfy, smooth or ribbed.
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| 2. | Their surface is scurfy, usually without tubercles.
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| 3. | Leaf blades are densely scurfy and wide.
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| 4. | Their undersurface is covered with a white scurfy glandular secretion which is typical of plumbago plants.
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| 5. | Initially, the bark is scurfy or scaly, lenticellate, later detaching in elongated plates.
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| 6. | The winter buds are light red, covered with pale scurfy down, protected by a pair of opposing scales.
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| 7. | The exterior surface is pale purple and scurfy ( covered with small flakes or scales that are shed from the underlying surface ).
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| 8. | Mature buds have an ovoid to pyriform shape and are long and wide and greenish to brown or cream in color, scurfy and absent of scars.
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| 9. | "Piranha to Scurfy " is also a departure from the Rendell norm in that it plays with a genre she's not associated with, the supernatural thriller.
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| 10. | Fast on the heels of " Grasshopper, " her latest Barbara Vine novel, is " Piranha to Scurfy, " a collection of short stories bookended by novellas.
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