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| Accessory fruit | A type of fleshy fruit that includes some other part of the flower in addition to that which is derived from the ovary. Accessory fruits are usually indehiscent. Examples of this type of fruit are apples, figs, and strawberries. |  |
| Achene | A small, dry, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit derived from a superior ovary with the seed attached to the fruit wall at one point only; e.g., species |
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| Aggregate fruit | A fruit formed by the coalescence of carpels that were distinct (apocarpous) in flower; e.g., |
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| Amphisarcum (plural = amphisarca) | A simple, indehiscent fruit with the pericarp differentiated externally into a dry crust and internally into one or more fleshy layers. | .thumb.jpg) |
| Anthocarp | A type of fruit in which some part of the flower other than the pericarp persists (e.g., the perianth on the fruit of Nyctaginaceae). | |
| Article | A joint or segment; e.g., a segment of a fruit (loment) of Desmodium spp. (Fabaceae). | |
| Baccate | Berrylike. See berry. |  |
| Basal stoppers | Valves in the woody pericarp of Parinari (Chrysobalanaceae) that allow for the escape of the seedling. Same as obturamenta. | |
| Berry | A usually soft, fleshy or juicy, multiseeded, indehiscent fruit (e.g., Solanum spp., Solanaceae). | |
| Campanulate fruit | Broadly bell-shaped fruit with a wide mouth. |  |
| Capsule | A dry, dehiscent fruit that develops from a syncarpous ovary; it can open in the middle of the locules (loculicidal), along the septa (septicidal), or around the circumference (circumscissile). |  |
| Carpophore | A prolongation of the receptacle to which the carpels are attached; e.g., the expanded red structure bearing the fruits in Ouratea (Ochnaceae); the central axis of a fragmenting fruit (schizocarp) to which the separate parts are attached; e.g., the fruits of Apiaceae and some species of Sapindaceae (in this sense, same as columella). | |
| Carpopodium | Differentiated base of a cypsela (Asteraceae), commonly zygomorphic and occasionally sculptured. | |
| Caryopsis | A dry, hard, one-seeded, indehiscent fruit unique to the Poaceae in which the pericarp is adnate to the seed coat. Same as grain. | |
| Cashew apple | The swollen pedicel that subtends the fruit of Anacardium (Anacardiaceae). Scientifically called the hypocarp. | |
| Circumscissile capsule | Dehiscing via a line around a fruit with the top usually falling off like the lid of a jar. |  |
| Coccus (plural = cocci) | One of the parts of a dry fruit that breaks into usually 1-seeded segments; e.g., the fruit of Serjania spp. (Sapindaceae); in the Euphorbiaceae, one of the sections of the wall of a dry dehiscent fruit. | |
| Columella | See carpophore; the central axis within the fruit; e.g., in Lecythidaceae. | |
| Condyle | In the drupe of Menispermaceae, the inward wing or projection of the endocarp around which the embryo or endosperm is folded. | |
| Craspedium | A legume pod in which the valves separate at maturity from the persistent septae or replum, and, as a rule, simultaneously break into one-seeded segments. |