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| Ripened ovary wall; made of exocarp, mesocarp, and endocarp |
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| from a flower with one carpel or multiple carples fused together |
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| Ripened ovaries in one flower with numerous simple carpels. The ripened ovaries from that one flower coalesce into one larger unit. (raspberry) |
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| The ripened ovaries from the multiple flowers coalesce into one unit. (Pineapple) |
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| A stone fruit, derived from a single carpel and containing (usually) one seed. The exocarp is a thin skin, the mesocarp may be fleshy and the endocarp is hard (ie "stony"). (Peach) |
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| A simple fruit from a flower with a superior ovary with a fleshy pericarp and many seeds. A tomato is a berry, a grape is a berry, but a raspberry is not. |
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| Numerous fused carpels instead of just one. Each of the section represents one carpel. The carpels are packed with fluid-filled vesicles that are actually specialized trichomes. The carpels are surrounded by a tough, leathery exocarp. (Orange) |
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| Dry fruit made up of a single, folded carpel, multi-seeded, dehiscent along two sutures. (peanut) |
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| A dry, dehiscent fruit made up of several fused carpels (poppy). |
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| A fruit from one carpel containing a single seed. The pericarp is fused to the seed; indehiscent. (corn kernel) |
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| Like the caryopsis (one seed per fruit) but the seed threshes is free of the pericarp; indehiscent (sunflower seed; avacado) |
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| Fused flower parts (receptacle and the petals, sepals, and stamens) which grow into fruit parts; creates 'accessory fruits' |
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| accessory fruit where the ovary wall forms the core in the center (apple) |
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| fused ovary/receptacle tissue forms a leathery or hard rind (the exocarp) (Squash) |
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