fruit
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apocarpy, marginally attached ovules
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placentation types |
free central |
parietal, axile |
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pepo |
legume |
cultivated tomato (more than 2 carpels)
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green pepper (berry) |
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cucumber with parietal placentation
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melon with parietal placentation |
apple flower; ovary position? |
apple flower to fruit |
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apple (pome)
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coconut (drupe) |
orange (hesperidium) |
dry indehiscent fruits |
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caryopsis |
hazelnuts with attached bracts
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walnuts and hickories |
dehiscent fruits |
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Stephanotis follicles
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milkweed follicles |
legume |
loculicidal capsule |
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schizocarps and mericarps (maple family)
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schizocarps and mericarps (carrot family) |
maple flower to fruit |
strawberry (aggregate of achenes) |
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fig (multiple of achenes)
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fig syconium cross section |
magnolia (aggregate of follicles) |
rose “hip” (aggregate of achenes) |
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mulberry (multiple of berries)
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strawberry flower to fruit |
blackberry (aggregate of tiny drupes) |
mature rose hip |
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pineapple (multiple of drupes)
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Brazil nut family (large, indehiscent fruit) |
appleorange |
zucchana |
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pineapple |
mace (aril) and nutmeg (seed without aril)
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capsules |
wild tomato: axile placentation, 2 carpels |
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Bromeliaceae: Ananas multiple of drupes
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strawberry |
placentation? number of carpels? |
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