Different Types of Fruits
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- mesocarp at least partly fleshy at maturity.
- Fruits develop from flowers with single pistil.
- simple fleshy fruit with single seed enclosed by hard stony endocarp (pit). Example: Peaches, almonds, olives.
- From compound ovary, with more than one seen, and with fleshy pericarp.
- with thin skin and relatively soft pericarp. Examples are Tomatoes, grapes, peppers, blueberries, bananas.
- relatively thick rind. Examples are Pumpkins and cucumbers
- leathery skin containing oils. Examples are citrus.
- Flesh comes from enlarged floral tube or receptacle that grows up around ovary. Endocarp papery or leathery. They develop below the flower petals.
- Apples, pears, core and a little of adjacent tissue is from ovary; remainder is from floral tube and receptacle.
- mesocarp dry at maturity.
- Dry fruits that split at maturity
- Dehiscent that splits along one side. Examples are Larkspur, milkweed, and peony.
- Dehiscent that splits along two sides. Examples are the Legume family: peas, beans, lentils, peanuts.
- Dry Fruits that split along two sides, but seeds on the central partition, which is exposed when two halves separate.
- more than three times longer than wide
- less than three times longer than wide
- Examples are mustard family: broccoli and cabbage
- Dry fruits that are consist of at least two carpels, and split in a variety of ways. Examples are Irises, poppies, violets, snapdragons.
- Do not split at maturity . Single seed united with pericarp.
- base of seed attached to pericarp. Examples are sunflower seeds, buttercup, buckwheat.
- similar to achene, but larger, with harder and thicker pericarp, and a cluster of bracts at base. Examples are Acorns, hazelnuts, and hickory nuts.
- pericarp extend as wings for dispersal. Such as Maples, ashes, elms.
- Pericarp tightly united with seed. Examples are grasses: Corn, wheat, rice, oats, barley.
- Twin fruit that breaks into one-seeded segments called mericarps. Sech as parsley family: carrots, anise, dill.
- Derived from single flower with several to many pistils
- Individual pistils mature as clustered units on a single receptacle. Such as Raspberries, blackberries.
- Derived from several to many individual flowers in single inflorescence. Such as mulberries, osage orange, pineapples, figs.