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Fruit Terminology (Part 2)
... pecans and walnuts contains tissue from the outer pericarp, and insist on referring to these dry fruits as "drupaceous nuts" rather than true nuts. According to "The Morphology of the Flowers ... (pericarp). Depending on the reference, walnuts and pecans are referred to as true nuts or dry drupes. Some authors eloquently avoid this dilemma by calling these fruits drupe-like or "drupaceous nuts ...
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Fruit Identification Outline
... drupes because of their outer, green, fleshy husk and stony, seed-bearing endocarp. These latter fruits are also called drupaceous nuts. The coconut is considered a dry ... the endocarp; therefore, these fruits are technically drupes or drupaceous nuts. Walnut & butternut (Juglans), two additional ... For this reason, walnuts are sometimes referred to as dry drupes, and the hard shell surrounding the seed ...
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Floridata: Vitex agnus-castus
... in the cooler parts of its range. Location Chaste tree is native to woodlands and dry areas of southern Europe and western Asia. Because of its many admirable attributes, the chaste ... of the chaste tree as they mature they'll dry and darken as they are held on the tree well into winter. The dry drupes are the size of a black peppercorn and ...
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Angiosperm Families - Anacardiaceae Lindl.
... , or absent. Endosperm formation nuclear. Fruit fleshy (usually), or non-fleshy (occasionally); when dry indehiscent; a drupe. The drupes with one stone. Seeds non-endospermic. Cotyledons 2. Embryo chlorophyllous (4/4), or ...
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Angiosperm Families - Araliaceae Juss.
... ‘false septa’. Epigynous disk present. Styles free, or partially joined. Stigmas wet type, or dry type; papillate; Group II type and Group III type. Placentation apical. Ovules 1(–2 ... (–100) (?). Fruit when non-schizocarpic, a berry, or a drupe; without fleshy investment. The drupes with separable pyrenes, or with one stone (as many pyrenes as the locules). Gynoecia of ...
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Celtis laevigata var. laevigata, sugarberry
... shorter ovate leaves.] Fruits drupes, on stalks at leaf bases, globular, about 6 mm (1/4 in) in diameter, orange to purple, ripening in fall, thin flesh dry and sweet. Distribution: About ...
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Planera aquatica, water elm
... . Flowers very small, greenish-yellow, clustered at leaf base in early Spring. Fruits dry warty light brown nutlike drupes on short stalks at leaf bases, maturing in Spring. Distribution: Scattered in the ...
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Chinese Sweet Plum
... small leaves, exported from southern China. Bisexual, pinkish or whitish flowers with fruits that are drupes. Give winter protection. Sageretia thea (or Sageretia theezan), Poor Man's Tea, Chinese Sweetplum, Shina ... . Watering: This tree enjoys slightly moist soil, but will wilt and die if allowed to dry out completely. Wilting can be recovered from only by a very healthy tree. Check mositure ...
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16.dr
... that drowns plant roots by eliminating oxygen from the soil. DRUPACEOUS: Pertaining to or producing drupes. DRUPE: A stone fruit having a hard, nut-like inner part surrounded by a fleshy ... . DRUXY: Pertaining to a tree or timber, having decayed spots or streaks in the heartwood. DRY SAND: A sandy deposit with low water-holding capacity. Return to the HOME PAGE.
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Floridata: Osmanthus americanus
... fruits are drupes or "stone fruits", dark bluish purple when mature and almost spherical, about 0.5 in (1.3 cm) in diameter. Location Wild olive occurs in dry woods and mesic ...
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