Fruit types Flashcards
(37 cards)

Berry
Also: grapes, blueberries,

Drupecetum
Also: raspberries
-aggregate fruit of drues
Achenecetum
aggregate fleshy fruit of achenes
Example: strawberry
Multiple fruit
derived from 2 or more flowers that coalesce


Pepo
Also: watermelon, and squash
coconut

drupe

Achenecetum
-on strawberries the achenes are on the surface of accessory tissue that is an enlarged fleshy receptical
Aggregate fruits
Achenecetum
drupecetum
follicetum
-derived from 2 or more pistils/ovaries of one flower


drupe
Also: cheries, plums, mangos,

berry

Simple fleshy Fruit
Hesperidium

Pome
Example: Apple, pear

pepo
Pome
Simple fleshy fruit
- with a cartilaginous endocarp derived from an inferior ovary
- Hypanthial tissue makes up the bulk of the part we eat
- Pears and apples

pepo
- simple fleshy fruit
- non-septate
- Parietal placentation
- leathery exocarp derived from an inferior ovary
- Cucumber


berry
(notice axile placentation = not a pepo)

follicetum
aggregate fruit of follicles
avacado

drupe
Berry
simple fleshy fruit
- fruit with a suculent pericarp
- general, unspecialized term

Hesperidium
Simple fleshy fruit
- Leathery outer pericarp
- fleshy modified trichomes (juicy sacs)
- Compound ovary
- Axile placentation
- septate
Citris fruit
Drupe
- simple fleshy fruit
- hard, stony endocarp and fleshy mesocarp
Example: stone fruits


Pepo

Multiple fruit
Sorosis
multiple fruit where the unit fruits are fleshy berries and are lateraly fused along a central axis