Types of fruits Flashcards
A small roundish juicy fruit without a stone (bananas, blueberry)
Berries
A modified berry with a tough, leathery rind, lemon and oranges
Hespiridia
Simple fleshy fruits that usually contain a single seed, such as peach, cherry, and olive
Drupes
A leguminous plant that especially grows as a crop
Legumes
include apples, pears, Asian pears, loquats, medlars, and quinces.
Pomes
is a type of fruit (seed capsule) having two fused carpels with the length being more than three times the width
Siliques
is an indehiscent fleshy one-celled many-seeded berry (such as a pumpkin, squash, melon, or cucumber)
Pepo
is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds.
Follicles
a structure composed of two or more carpels
Capsules
is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible.
Nuts
are fruits in which each carpel of a compound ovary splits apart to form two or more parts, each with a single seed
Schizocarps
dry, one-seeded fruit lacking special seams that split to release the seed.
Achenes
a dry, inhidescent fruit containing one seed, the ovary wall in which, the seed develops, permanently fuses together making the fruit and the grain a single body or unit.
Caryopses
a fruit formed from several carpels derived from the same flower, e.g. a raspberry.
Aggregate
a fruit formed from carpels derived from several flowers, such as a pineapple.
Multiple
