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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... The origin of the generic name for coconut "Cocos" may be traced to the three germination pores on the endocarp layer surrounding the seed. According to R. Sokolov (Natural History Oct. 1989), Portuguese and Spanish traders introduced the ...
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Botanical Record-Breakers (Cont.)
... the palm and turned brown. Technically, the fruit is known as a dry drupe because of the distinct out skin (exocarp), the thick fibrous husk (mesocarp), and the hard endocarp surrounding the seed. E. View inside the ...
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Fruit Terminology (Part 2)
... the outer green layer (husk) of the walnut is part of the pericarp and the hard shell surrounding the seed is the endocarp layer as in coconuts. In true nuts, the hard, indehiscent layer surrounding the seed is the ...
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Fruit Terminology (Part 4)
... The juice sacs constitute the fleshy, edible pulp of an orange and are the source of the sweet juice. A bitter compound called limonin occurs in the mesocarp (rind) and membranous layers (partitions) surrounding the seed ... layer (endocarp) surrounding the seed. The lower pit (removed from another peach) has been sectioned to show the thick, woody layer or endocarp surrounding a single seed. See ...
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Fruit Identification Outline
... and the hard shell surrounding the seed is considered to be the endocarp layer as in coconuts. In true nuts, the hard, indehiscent layer surrounding the seed is the entire ovary wall or pericarp, and the ... references, the outer green layer (husk) of the walnut is part of the pericarp and the hard shell surrounding the seed is really the endocarp. Therefore, walnuts and pecans probably fit the dry ...
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Nut Photos
... the walnut is composed of involucral bracts, perianth (calyx) tissue, and the outer layer of the pericarp. The hard shell surrounding the seed is the inner layer of the pericarp. In true nuts, the hard, indehiscent layer surrounding the seed is the ...
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Inflorescence Terminology (Part 2)
... the ovaries develop into minute one-seeded drupelets with a hard inner layer (endocarp) surrounding the seed. The seed-bearing drupelets produce the superior nutty flavor and crunch. Without pollination Calimyrna syconia fail to ripen and drop from the branches. Left: A view inside the syconium of a rustyleaf fig (Ficus rubiginosa). The ...
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The Mary's Bean
... the Cape region of southern Baja California. Another similar species of Merremia (M. tuberosa) grows in the Hawaiian Islands and throughout the tropics. Known to Polynesian travelers as the "wood rose," the enlarged, dried calyx surrounding the seed ...
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Bamboo
... (diffuses) to the photosynthetic bundle sheath cells surrounding the vascular bundles (veins) of the leaf. PEP essentially shuttles the CO2 to the bundle sheath cells where it is released for the dark reactions ... the seed predators were in tune with bamboo flowering and fruiting, they could easily destroy the bulk of the seed crop each year. With massive fruiting only once or twice in a century, the ...
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Goosefoot Family
... the chloroplasts are concentrated in bundle sheath cells surrounding the veins. Left: Close-up view of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) showing several circumscissile seed capsules. The upper half of the ...
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