The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

More recently interest has centred on the fastigiate form (ssp. cupressiformis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

In this variety the branches are more ascending and the habit altogether more erect; indeed, among the hornbeams this is a counterpart of the fastigiate varieties of the common oak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference

= -- The leaves partake more or less of the altered direction of the axis, as in fastigiate elms, but this is not universally the case, for though the stem is bent downwards the leaves may be placed in the opposite direction; thus in some specimens of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

It is often called the pyramidal or fastigiate poplar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

The fastigiate trees and shrubs are a counterpart of the weeping forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

And while there is less danger of root spread with fastigiate and columnar trees, the roots will still extend further than the crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

Beyond that there were many and large limbs; which, diverging only slightly, and in a fastigiate manner, carried the tree nearly as much higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference

They are ordinarily called pyramidal or fastigiate forms, and as far as their history goes, they arise suddenly in large sowings of the normal species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Among trees the pendulous or weeping, and the broomlike or fastigiate forms are very marked varieties, which occur in species belonging to quite different orders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Both weeping and fastigiate characters are therefore to be regarded as steps in a negative direction, and it is highly important that even such marked departures occur without transitions or intermediate forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Nevertheless many of the fastigiate varieties seen in gardens have originated in this country by variation of seeds or buds. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The fastigiate birch was produced in this way by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Poplar, fastigiate, 623, 624.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Birch, 133, 243 cut-leaved, 596, 616 fastigiate, 618 fern-leaved, 179.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference