B300 Lab Practical 2

Berry

Fleshy fruit with succulent pericarp; tomato, green pepper, blueberry, banana

Hesperidium

Septate berry with thick-skinned, leathery pericarp wall and fleshy modified trichomes (juice sacs); orange, lime, lemon.

Drupe

Fleshy fruit with hard, stony endocarp; plum, peach, cherry

Pepo

Nonseptate, fleshy fruit with parietal placentation and leathery exocarp; squash, watermelon.

Pome

Fleshy fruit with cartilaginous endocarp; apple, pear.

Aggregate

Fruit derived from one flower; raspberry, blackberry, strawberry.

Multiple

Fruit derived from many flowers; pineapple.

Schizocarp

Fruit derived from two or more loculed compound ovary in which the locules separate at inception or maturity

Grain/caryopsis

One seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit with seed coat adnate to pericarp wall; grasses.

Samara

Winged, dry fruit; maple, elm.

Nut

One seeded, dry indehiscent fruit with hard pericarp, usually derived from 1-loculed ovary; walnut, hickory.

Achene

One seeded, dry indehiscent fruit with seed attached to pericarp at one point only; sunflower

Follicle

Dry, dehiscent fruit derived from one carpel that splits along one suture

Legume

Dry, dehiscent fruit derived from one carpel that splits along two sutures

Silique

Dry, dehiscent, 2-carpeled fruit that dehisces along two sutures, longer than it is broad.

Silicle

Dry, dehiscent, 2-carpeled fruit that dehisces along two sutures, and is as broad or broader than it is long

Capsule

Dry, dehiscent fruit of compound ovary.