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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 ...
Cam sành (Vietnamese: [kaːm ʂâjŋ̟]) [1] [2] or King orange (Citrus reticulata × sinensis) [1] is a citrus hybrid originating in Vietnam.. Cam sành is Vietnamese for "terracotta orange", although the fruit is more akin to a mandarin or tangerine.
In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary. Berries so defined include grapes , currants , and tomatoes , as well as cucumbers , eggplants (aubergines), persimmons and bananas , but exclude certain fruits that meet the culinary definition of berries , such as strawberries and ...
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 most commonly eaten species is Dracontomelon duperreanum, which produces an edible fruit that is eaten in Cambodia, Vietnam [2] and China.In Vietnamese, the plant is called cây sấu and is a common urban tree in Hanoi; the fruit is called quả sấu.
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]
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]