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Fruit Terminology (Part 2)
... Tree Two anthocarps of the desert sand verbena (Abronia villosa var. villosa). Each seed-bearing ovary (achene) is tightly encased within the persistent winged calyx. Left: Desert (dune) evening primrose ( ... surrounding the seed is the ripened ovary wall or pericarp and the outer husk is composed of involucral tissue (or calyx tissue) that is not part of the ovary wall (pericarp). Depending on ...
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Fruit Identification Outline
... Tab & Economic Plant Families I. Simple Fruits: A single ripened ovary from a single flower. A. Fleshy Fruits: All of most of the ovary wall (pericarp) is soft or fleshy at maturity. 1 ... Capsules of South African Baobab Indehiscent Capsules of South African Gardenias d. Follicle: A single ripened ovary (representing a single modified leaf or carpel) that splits open along one seam. The follicle ...
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... or producing fruit. FRUCTIFICATION: 1. The production of fruit by a plant; fruiting. 2. The ripened ovary and its appendages; the fruit of a plant. FRUCTIFY: To bear or produce fruit; to ... covering the seeds (i.e. apple, orange, a berry, a melon, etc.). 4. The matured ovary of a plant, consisting of the seeds and their pericarp (coating) and including whatever may ...
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... fruit, such as an apple or strawberry, which consists largely of tissue other than the ripened ovary. PSEUDOCEHALIUM: A growth of long, hair-like spines on one side of the upper stem ...
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Glossary
... in this group. Angiosperms differ from gymnosperms in that the seeds are enclosed within the ripened ovary and bear true flowers. annual A plant which sprouts, flowers, fruits and dies within a ... or sepals which function to attract pollinating insects or birds. fruit The product of a ripened ovary. The fruit of a flowering plant is not necessarily fleshy or edible, as we expect ...
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glossary F
... more of these may be absent. Flowering Producing the male and female reproductive structures. Fruit Ripened ovary. Fusiform Spindle-shaped; widest near the middle and tapering in toward both ends.
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Botany
... ripened ovary or group of ovaries containing the seeds. It may include adjacent tissue that fuses with the ovary. Once the ovary is fertilized, the seeds develop and the ovary enlarges forming the mature fruit. A simple fruit forms from the ripening of the ovary ... composed of at least one ripened ovary. Botanically, a vegetable is ...
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Forestry Glossary: P is for ... polygamous pioneer population
... , usually the combined calyx and corolla of a flower. pericarp (n.) The wall of a ripened ovary (fruit). It is homogeneous in some genera. In others it is composed of three distinct ... properties that facilitate their distribution. pistil (n.) Ovule-bearing organ of an angiosperm composed of ovary, style, and stigma. Pleistocene (n.) [Greek pleistos = most and kainos = new, recent.] The time period ...
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Botanical Garden | People and Plants
... plant: drupes, berries, pepo, and hesperidia; while some are made from tissues other than the ovary (pomes and accessory fruit) or even multiple fruit fused together. Some common fruits have ... in the various categories in the following table. Drupe stony center to protect seeds Berries ripened ovary Pepo covered by a thick leathery coating Hesperidium smelly leathery peel Pomes Accessory Fruit ...
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Glossary
... the combined calyx and corolla, or tepals of a flower. Pericarp- The wall of a ripened ovary (fruit) that is homogeneous in some genera and in others is composed of three distinct ... there until supplanted by successor species. Pistil- Ovule-bearing organ of an angiosperm composed of ovary, style, and stigma. Collectively the pistils are called the genoecium. Pistillate- Having only female organs ...
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