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Fruits |
Are matured or rippen ovary; products pf flowers |
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Exocarp |
Outer layer, usually forms the skin of the fruit |
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Mesocarp |
Middle layer; usually the edible fleshy portion |
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Endocarp |
Inner layer; usually the hard shell around the seed |
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Pericarp |
Mature ovary wall of the fruit |
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Dry fruits |
May open up at maturity and are dehiscent |
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Valve |
One of the segments of a dehiscent fruit after opening |
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Suture |
The line of dehiscence |
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Septum |
A simple portion between the locule of the fruit or ovary |
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Simple fruit |
As to composition or structure From a single ovary of a single flower |
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Aggregate fruit |
As to composition or structure From several ovaries of a single flower |
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Multiple or collective fruits |
As to composition pr structure From ovaries of several flowers borne close togetheron a common axis |
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Fleshy fruits |
Soft and pulpy at maturity |
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Berry |
Derived from either a simple or a compound ovary; contains 1 to many seeds; most of the pericarp is fleshy |
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Hesperidium |
Modified berry with a separable leathery rind composed of exocarp and mesocarp, endocarp is fleshy |
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Pepo |
Modified berry with an inseparable, rigid rind composed of the 3 layers from the flesh, a fruit formed a compound inferior ovary, in which the outer wall becomes hard and tough |
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Drupe |
Thin exocarp surrounds fleshy or fibrous mesocarp, endocarp at center forms a stony wall around the seed |
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Accessory |
A fruit made up of suculent receptacle covered with several to many pistils, these each becoming fleshy drupes |
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Hip |
A cluster of achenes surrounded by a hypanthium or a cup-shaped receptacle |
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Multiple |
A fruit made up of more than one flower,usually with superior ovaries |
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Pome |
A fruit formed from a compound inferior ovary, in which the receptacle becomes thick and fleshy |
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Synconium |
A hollow receptacle or peduncle that houses many small achenes inside |
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Dry dehiscent fruit |
Dry and hard or papery at maturity, slip open along 1 or more sutures or seams |
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Follicle |
From s single carpel, splits open along one margin |
Kalachuchi, camachili, milkweed |
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Legume |
Form a single carpel, spilts open alobg 2 margins |
String beans, peanut, acacia |
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Silique |
Forms from a single ovary with 2 locules at maturity, pericarp separates into 3 portions |
Garlic, mustard, moonwort |
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Capsule |
Forms from 2 or more fused carpels, spilts openalong multiple seams, or forms pores, or forms lid-kike cap that falls off |
Lily, okra, banana, tobacco, tulip, cotton |
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Dry indehiscent fruit |
Do not split by definite seam at maturity |
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Achene |
Single seeded fruit in which the seeds is attached to pericarp at only one point |
Sunflower, dandelion, cosmos |
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Samara |
Winged achene - one-seeded fruit with hard coat and surrounded by a "cap" of dried bracts |
Narra, apitong, ash, maple, acorn |
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Schizocarp |
Fruits consisting of two carpels that split into one-seeded halves |
Carrot, celery, makahiya, parsley |
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Grains or caryopsis |
Single seeded fruit in which seed is completely fused into pericarp |
Wheat, corn, rice, oats |
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Nut |
Single-seeded fruit derived from compound ovary, possesses hard pericarp; a looselyused term applied to a one-seeded fruit with hard coat |
Pili, macadamia, hazelnut |
