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The word 'succulent fruit' is synonymous to fleshy fruit and both words are often used interchangeably. [1] [2] Fruits can be classed as fleshy fruits or dry fruits based on their pericarp. Anatomically, fleshy fruits have a fleshy pericarp which is divided in three layers: an outermost exocarp or epicarp, a middle mesocarp and the innermost ...
The pedicels holding the flowers are 4 to 8 centimeters long. The flower has 4 petals, each 1 to 1.4 centimeters long with a notch in the tip. The two petal color morphs are white and yellow, but all the petals have yellow or orange bases. The fruit is a smooth, oblong or somewhat rounded silicle up to about 1.4 centimeters long. The winged ...
Flowering occurs from February to June and the fruit is a fleshy, white, yellow or purplish, more or less spherical drupe 5–9 mm (0.2–0.4 in) long, that matures from May to December. The fruit are four-lobed and have a tuft of hairs on the end.
They can be either fleshy or dry. In fleshy fruit, during development, the pericarp and other accessory structures become the fleshy portion of the fruit. [2] The types of fleshy fruits are berries, pomes, and drupes. [3] In berries, the entire pericarp is fleshy but this excludes the exocarp which acts as more as a skin.
The flowers are white, yellow or red, 2–6 cm (1–2 in) diameter with 6–9 petals, and mature into a green, yellow or red fleshy fruit 2–5 cm (1–2 in) long. [8] All the parts of the plant are poisonous, including the green fruit, but once the fruit has turned yellow, it can be safely eaten. [9] The ripe fruit does not produce toxicity. [10]
The cashew tree is large and evergreen, growing to 14 metres (46 feet) tall, with a short, often irregularly shaped trunk. [2] The leaves are spirally arranged, leathery textured, elliptic to obovate, 4–22 centimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 8 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches) long and 2–15 cm (3 ⁄ 4 –6 in) broad, with smooth margins.
Crataegus succulenta is a species of hawthorn known by the common names fleshy hawthorn, [4] succulent hawthorn, [4] and round-fruited cockspurthorn. [5] It is "the most wide-ranging hawthorn in North America", [3] native to much of southern Canada, and the United States as far south as Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee. [3]
Guadua sarcocarpa, also known as the fleshy fruit guadua, is a species of clumping bamboo found in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. [ 2 ] This bamboo is used for construction, ladders, fences, and digging sticks.