Fruits

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Fruit (FR, fr)

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a mature ovary with a seed inside

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Seed

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a fertilized and mature ovary

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Pericarp

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ovary wall of a fleshy fruit

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Exocarp

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skin of the fruit

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Mesocarp –

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fleshy layer of fruit

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Endocarp (stone) –

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stony layer that surrounds one ore more seeds

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Dehiscent –

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Split open upon maturity

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Indehiscent –

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Do not split open upon maturity

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Berry

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fleshy fruits in which the seeds are enclosed in juicy tissue or an air filled locule

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Pepo –

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berry with a thick hard outer pericarp, squash

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Pome –

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berry where most of the flesh comes from the hypanthium, apples

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Drupe –

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fleshy fruit with the pericarp divided into 3 layers, peaches, coconut

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Legume –

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derived from simple ovaries with single carpel, split along two seams

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Follicle –

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derived from simple ovaries of single carpels, splits along only one seam

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Capsule –

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dehiscent fruit derived from compound ovaries

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Achene –

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one seeded dry fruit with a thick pericarp and thin seedcoat, sunflower

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Nut –

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indehiscent fruits with hard stony pericarps

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Caryopsis –

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one seeded dry fruit with the pericarp and seed coat fused, grains

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Utricle –

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dry one seeded fruit with a thin membranous pericarp and hard seed coat- pigweed

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Samara –

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winged fruits, part of the pericarp is flattened into a membrane

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Schizocarp –

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dry fruits derived from compound ovaries that spit into component carpels at maturity

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Mericarp

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1 carpellate segments of schizocarps- indehiscent

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Nutlet –

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derived from one seeded half carpellate units, from four lobed ovaries

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Aggregate fruits

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Fruits derived from apocarpous gynoecium

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Multiple fruits

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Fruits derived from ripened inflorescence