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A milkweed follicle releasing its seeds.. In botany, a follicle is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds. [1] It is usually defined as dehiscing by a suture in order to release seeds, [2] for example in Consolida (some of the larkspurs), peony and milkweed (Asclepias).
An example of multiple fruits are the fig, mulberry, and the pineapple. [1] Simple fruits are formed from a single ovary and may contain one or many seeds. 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 fruit is an etaerio of follicles which usually become closely appressed as they mature and open along the abaxial surface. Seeds have a fleshy coat, aril, and color that ranges from red to orange (except Liriodendron).
They can be follicles, capsules, nuts, achenes, drupes , and accessory fruits, like the pome of an apple, the hip of a rose, or the receptacle-derived aggregate accessory fruit of a strawberry. Many fruits of the family are edible, but their seeds often contain amygdalin , which can release cyanide during digestion if the seed is damaged.
Cypsela – an achene-like fruit derived from the individual florets in a capitulum: . Fibrous drupe – (coconut, walnut: botanically, neither is a true nut.). Follicle – follicles are formed from a single carpel, and opens by one suture: ; also commonly seen in aggregate fruits: (magnolia, peony).
In (flowering plants), the term locule (or cell) is used to refer to a chamber within the fruit. Depending on the number of locules in the ovary, fruit can be classified as uni-locular (unilocular), bi-locular, tri-locular or multi-locular. The number of locules present in a gynoecium may be equal to or less than the number of carpels.
The follicles are scarlet when ripe. [5] In India, flowers appear in March, and the leaves appear between March and April. At Hyderabad (India), flowering was observed in September–October (2015) with ripened fruits on the top part and young green fruits at the lower branches. The fruit is ripe in February (11 months after the flowers ...
A schizocarp / ˈ s k ɪ z ə k ɑːr p / is a dry fruit that, when mature, splits up into mericarps. There are different definitions: Any dry fruit composed of multiple carpels that separate. [1] [2] Under this definition the mericarps can contain one or more seeds (the mericarps of Abutilon have two or more seeds [3]) and each mericarp can be ...