Fruit and S eed

1. Fruit and Seed By: YiChau Chen

2. Fleshy Simple Fruits • Berries • Hesperidiums • Pepo • Drupe • Pome

3. Fleshy Aggregate Fruits • Polydrupes

4. Dry Dehiscent Fruits • Follicle • Legume • Silique • Capsule

5. Dry Indehiscent Fruits • Achene • Samara • Caryopsis • Nuts

6. Berries • These fruits have a soft epicarp and the mesocarp and endocarp is fleshly. • The following is a list of fruits that come under types of berries: • Grapes • Tomatoes • Bananas • Raspberry • Avocados • Eggplants • Currants • Persimmons

7. Hesperidiums •  These fruits have thick, leathery exocarp and mesocarp. They have a juicy, pulpy endocarp arranged in a section of juice sacs from the ovary wall. • The list of fruit under the type of hesperidium are as follows: • Orange • Lemon • Grapefruit • Limes • Citron • Mandarin • Clementine

8. Pepo • The berry has an outer wall or rind that is formed from receptacle tissue that is fused to the exocarp. The mesocarp and endocarp from the fleshy interior. • The list of fruits under the type of pepo are: • Cucumber • Watermelon • Squash • Pumpkin • Honeydew melon • Sunberry

9. Drupe •  The fruits are developed from one carpel ovary and with one seed. The endocarp is hard and stony that fits closely around the seed. • The mesocarp is fleshy and the fruit has thin, soft exocarp. The list of fruits under the type of drupe are: • Cherry • Peach • Plum • Almond • Apricot • Olive • Coconut

10. Pome • The fruit is developed from a compound inferior ovary. The ripened tissue around the ovary forms the fleshy edible part. • The ripened tissue around the ovary forms the fleshy edible part. The list of fruits under the types of pome are: • Apples • Pears • Medlar • Haw

11. Polydrupes • his is formed from the development of a number of simple carpels from a single flower. Few are dry fruits that are attached to a fleshy receptacle and the others are aggregation of simple fleshy fruits. • The list of fruits under fleshy aggregate fruits are: • Strawberry • Blackberry • Loganberry • Raspberry

12. Follicle • The fruit is developed from a single carpel ovary. It splits open from one side only. • This type of fruit contains one or many seeds. The list of fruits under follicle are: • Columbine • Milkweed

13. Legume • These fruits are dry dehiscent fruits that have pods that split on two sides.  •  The list of fruits under legumes are: • Beans • Peanut • Runner Bean

14. Silique • This is a fruit that develops from two-carpel ovary, with the halves that fall away leaving the seeds attached to persistent, central wall.

15. Capsule • The fruit develops from compound ovary with two or more carpels and the capsules dehisce.

16. Achene •  This is a small one-seeded fruit. The pericarp is easily separable from the seed coat.

17. Samara • These are one or two seeded achene-like fruits. They form wings from the outgrowth of ovary walls.

18. Caryopsis • These are one-seeded small fruits that have pericarp completely fused to the seed coat. • The type of fruits under caryopsis include: • Wheat • Oats • Rice • Corn • Barley

19. Nuts • These are one-seeded dried fruits with a hard pericarp. • The list of fruits under this type are: • Walnut • Hazelnut • Chestnut • Acorn

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