Fruit types Flashcards
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
Simple fleshy fruits
berry
drupe
pome
pepo
hesperidium
Dry, dehiscent fruit dericed from one carpel that splits along one suture
follicle
dry, dehiscent fruit derived from one carpel that splits along two longitudinal sutures
legumes
- Fabaceae
dry, dehiscent fruit derived from a 2 carpeled ovary that dehisces on 2 sutures
- has an outer rim, the replum, and a persistent, thin partition, the false septum
- broad or long
Brassicaceae
silique and silicle
general dry fruit type
dehiscent fruits derived from compound ovaries.
capsules
(there are several kinds)
longitudinal lines of dehiscents radially aligned with the locules
-split into valves
loculicidal capsules
der, dehiscent fruit with longitudinal lines of dehiscents radialy aligned with the ovary septa
-split into valves
septicidal capsules
has a transverse line of dehiscence typically forming an operculum
circumscissile capsule
dehiscence by means of pores
poricidal capsule
- simple, dry, indehicent fruit
- one seeded
- seed attached to the paricarp at one point
Achene
one seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit with the seed coat adnate to the pericarp wall
grain/caryopsis
dry, indehiscent fruit
winged
Samara
one seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit with a hard pericarp
nut
