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Tag: fruit

Slice of tomato showing locules.
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Botanical Nerd Word: Locule

Locule: A chamber within an ovary, anther, sporangium, or fruit; in ovary and fruit, usually corresponding to a carpel.* In this tomato cross section, the locules are the areas filled …

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Ripe peaches on a tree
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Botanical Nerd Word: Drupe

Drupe: A fleshy, indehiscent fruit with a stony endocarp surrounding a usually single seed, as in a peach or cherry.* Summer is the time for eating many delicious drupes. Peaches, …

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fruit arrangement of bananas, apples, and pears
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Botanical Nerd Word: Ethylene

Ethylene: A gas (C2H4) that is produced naturally by plants, and which functions as a hormone in the control of such processes as germination, cell growth, fruit ripening, senescence, and …

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Half-peeled clementine
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Botanical Nerd Word: Hesperidium

Hesperidium: The berry of a citrus plant (Rutaceae), i.e. a fruit whose fleshy parts are divided into segments, the whole being surrounded by a separable skin.* Fruits in the citrus …

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squirrel eating apples in a crap apple tree
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Botanical Nerd Word: Pome

Pome: A fruit in which the seeds are protected by a tough carpel wall and the entire fruit is embedded in a fleshy receptacle. In an apple, the carpel wall …

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the fruit of the fig tree
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Botanical Nerd Word: Syconium

Syconium: A multiple fruit developed from numerous flowers imbedded in a fleshy receptacle, as in the fig.* The fruits on the Ficus carica (hardy fig) are just beginning to ripen in …

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