Fruit

What is a schizocarp?

a dry, indehiscent, multiovulate fruit that splits into mericarps

What is an achene?

a dry, indehiscent, uniovulate fruit

What is a utricle?

a dry, indehiscent, uniovulate fruit that is inflated and has a thin pericarp

What is a silicle?

a dry, multiovulate, bicarpellete fruit that is dehiscent along two lines and is less than three times as long as wide

What is a silique?

a dry, multiovulate, bicarpellete fruit that is dehiscent along two lines and is more than three times as long as wide

What is a capsule?

a dry, multiovulate, syncarpous (2 or more carpels) fruit that is dehiscent along multiple sutures

What is a legume?

a dry, multiovulate, unicarpellete fruit that is dehiscent along two sutures

What is a berry?

a fleshy, thin-skinned, multiovulate fruit

What is a fruit?

a mature ovary that usually contains seeds

What is a pome?

a multiovulate, syncarpous fleshy fruit with a papery endocarp and inferior ovary

What is a drupe?

a uniovuluate, unicarpellete fruit that has a stony, hard endocarp and a fleshy mesocarp, and thin exocarp

Strawberry, blackberry, and raspberry are what type of fruits?

aggregate

What class of fruit has a single flower and many pistils?

aggregate

What is a cyathium?

cup-shaped involucre of fused bracts enclosing several greatly reduced male flowers and a single female flower

Cherry, peach, plum, almond, apricot and olives are what type of fruits?

drupe

What are the three parts of the fruit wall (pericarp)?

endocarp, mesocarp, exocarp

Columbines and milkweeds are what fruit type?

follicle

Is a pit part of a seed or a fruit?

fruit

Peas and beans are what type of fruits?

legume

What is a seed?

mature ovule

Mulberry, pineapple, and fig are what type of fruits?

multiple

What class of fruit has multiple flowers with one pistil each and involves accessory tissue?

multiple

Which class of fruits always involves accessory tissue?

multiple

Walnut, hazelnut, chestnut, and acorns are what type of fruits?

nut

What is a one seeded fruit with hard pericarp (shell)?

nut

What is the term for the ovary wall?

pericarp

What encloses a seed, stoney endocarp?

pit

Apple and pears are what type of fruits?

pome

Mimosa is what type of fruit?

schizocarp

What are the seed-containing parts of a fruit that do not form a single unit and that each derive from a carpel, these parts usually dehisce independently from each other when ripe?

schizocarp

What class of fruit has a single pistil and a single flower?

simple

What do you call a fruit when tissue other than the ovary is involved in fruit formation?

simple accessory

Which classes of fruits may or may not involve accessory tissue?

simple, aggregate

What are the three classes of fruit?

simple, aggregate, and multiple

What is a follicle?

a dry, multiovulate, unicarpellete fruit that is dehiscent along one suture

What type of fruit is a sunflower seed?

achene

Tomatoes, grapes, and dates are examples of what fruit type?

berry

Cotton, poppy, and primrose are what type of fruits?

capsule

What are the four characters that are used to discriminate among fruit types (e.g., legume, drupe, berry, capsule)?

1. number, arrangement, and union of the carpels (e.g., one or more than one carpel) 2. number of seeds (i.e., uni- or multi-seeded) 3. nature of the fruit wall (i.e., fleshy or dry) 4. if dry, dehiscent or indehiscent