Types of Fruit

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Types of Fruit

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Pome - most of the fruit is formed from the receptacle (under the flower) eg pear, apple
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Drupe - has fleshy fruit and a single seed with a hard endocarp eg peaches, coconut and olives

Berry - has many seeds eg tomatoes, peppers and cucumber but not strawberries!

Aggregate fruit - develop from one flower with many pistils eg strawberries.

Legumes - split along two sides eg beans, peas

Capsules - are dry fruit that have several carpels eg orchids

Nuts - have one seed and a hard pericarp eg acorns

Grains - have the fruit and seed joined closely together eg wheat, rice, barley.

Multiple fruits - come from several different flowers joined together eg pineapples.

http://web.fscj.edu/David.Byres/botanynotes/botanych8notes.html

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Drupes

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https://feedyourskull.com/2013/02/22/what-is-a-drupe/

​https://biology4isc.weebly.com/seeds-and-fruits.html
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https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/fruitid1.htm

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Our Garden Progress

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