Information about Epigynous Berry
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Remnants of the floral parts are clearly evident on these immature banana fruits, demonstrating that the fruit is developing from an inferior ovary
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A blueberry carries the five sepals of the flower at the tip, showing that the berry forms below the flower.
Examples of plants which produce false berries include:
- Banana
- family Cucurbitaceae
- Cucumis, like cucumber and canteloupe
- Watermelon
- Cucurbita (gourds), like squash and pumpkin
- genus Ribes, such as gooseberry and the currants (including redcurrant and blackcurrant)
- genus Vaccinium including blueberry, and cranberry.
| Botanical parlance | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| True berry | Epigynous berry | Other accessory fruits | ||
| Common parlance | Berry | Grape | Currant, blueberry, gooseberry | Strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, boysenberry |
| Other | Tomato, persimmon, eggplant, chili pepper | Banana, cucumber, avocado, squash, pumpkin, melon, watermelon, lingonberry | Apple, peach, green bean, sunflower seed, guava | |
| Types of fruits |
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| Berries | Drupes | Pomes | Aggregate fruits | Multiple fruits | False berries | Accessory fruit |
accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit, epigynous fruit or pseudocarp is a fruit where the fleshy part is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue.
An example is the apple. Other examples include cashew and ficus.
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An example is the apple. Other examples include cashew and ficus.
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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866[1]
Divisions
Green algae
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Haeckel, 1866[1]
Divisions
Green algae
- Chlorophyta
- Charophyta
- Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)
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berry, in common parlance refers generically to any small fruit with multiple seeds. Aggregate fruits such as the blackberry, the raspberry, and the boysenberry are also berries in this sense, but not the botanical.
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sepal (from Latin separatus "separate" + petalum "petal") is a part of the flower of angiosperms or flower plants. Sepals in a "typical" flower are green and lie under the more conspicuous petals.
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petal (from Ancient Greek petalon "leaf", "thin plate"), regarded as a highly modified leaf, is one member or part of the corolla of a flower. The corolla is the name for all of the petals of a flower; the inner perianth whorl, term used when this is not the same in
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stamen (plural stamina, from Latin stamen meaning "thread of the warp") is the male organ of a flower. Each stamen generally has a stalk called the filament (from Latin filum, meaning "thread"), and, on top of the filament, an anther
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Cucurbitaceae
Juss.
Cucurbitaceae is a plant family commonly known as gourds or cucurbits and includes crops like cucumbers, squashes (including pumpkins), luffas, melons and watermelons.
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Juss.
Cucurbitaceae is a plant family commonly known as gourds or cucurbits and includes crops like cucumbers, squashes (including pumpkins), luffas, melons and watermelons.
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BANANA (an acronym of Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything or possibly Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone
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Cucurbitaceae
Juss.
Cucurbitaceae is a plant family commonly known as gourds or cucurbits and includes crops like cucumbers, squashes (including pumpkins), luffas, melons and watermelons.
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Juss.
Cucurbitaceae is a plant family commonly known as gourds or cucurbits and includes crops like cucumbers, squashes (including pumpkins), luffas, melons and watermelons.
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Cucumis
L.
Species
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L.
Species
- Cucumis anguria
- Cucumis dipsaceus
- Cucumis ficifolius
- Cucumis humifructus (aardvark cucumber)
- Cucumis melo (melon)
- Cucumis metuliferus (horned melon)
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C. sativus
Binomial name
Cucumis sativus
L.
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as
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Binomial name
Cucumis sativus
L.
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as
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C. m. cantalupensis
C. m. reticulatus
Trinomial name
Cucumis melo cantalupensis
Cucumis melo reticulatus
Naudin.
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C. m. reticulatus
Trinomial name
Cucumis melo cantalupensis
Cucumis melo reticulatus
Naudin.
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C. lanatus
Binomial name
Citrullus lanatus
(Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.
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Binomial name
Citrullus lanatus
(Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.
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Cucurbita
L.
Species
C. digitata - fingerleaf gourd
C. ficifolia - figleaf gourd, chilacayote
C. foetidissima - stinking gourd, buffalo gourd
C. maxima - winter squash, pumpkin
C.
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L.
Species
C. digitata - fingerleaf gourd
C. ficifolia - figleaf gourd, chilacayote
C. foetidissima - stinking gourd, buffalo gourd
C. maxima - winter squash, pumpkin
C.
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Squashes generally refer to four species of the genus Cucurbita native to the New World, also called marrows depending on variety or the nationality of the speaker.
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Cucurbita spp.
L.
Species
C. maxima
C. mixta
C. moschata
C. pepo
A pumpkin is a squash fruit that grows as a gourd from a trailing vine of certain species in the genus Cucurbita.
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L.
Species
C. maxima
C. mixta
C. moschata
C. pepo
A pumpkin is a squash fruit that grows as a gourd from a trailing vine of certain species in the genus Cucurbita.
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Grossulariaceae
Genus: Ribes
L.
Species
See text
Ribes is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants, usually treated as the only genus in the family Grossulariaceae.
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Genus: Ribes
L.
Species
See text
Ribes is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants, usually treated as the only genus in the family Grossulariaceae.
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R. uva-crispa
Binomial name
Ribes uva-crispa
L.
The gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa (syn. R.
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Binomial name
Ribes uva-crispa
L.
The gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa (syn. R.
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Ribes
Species: R. rubrum
Binomial name
Ribes rubrum
L.
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Species: R. rubrum
Binomial name
Ribes rubrum
L.
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R. nigrum
Binomial name
Ribes nigrum
L.
The Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) is a species of Ribes berry native to central and northern Europe and northern Asia.
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Binomial name
Ribes nigrum
L.
The Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) is a species of Ribes berry native to central and northern Europe and northern Asia.
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Vaccinium
L.
Species
See text
Vaccinium is a genus of shrubs in the plant Family Ericaceae including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, cowberry or lingonberry, and huckleberry.
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L.
Species
See text
Vaccinium is a genus of shrubs in the plant Family Ericaceae including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, cowberry or lingonberry, and huckleberry.
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Cyanococcus
Rydb.
Species
See text.
Blueberries are flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus. The species are native to North America, eastern Asia and Northern Europe.
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Rydb.
Species
See text.
Blueberries are flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus. The species are native to North America, eastern Asia and Northern Europe.
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Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the genus Vaccinium subgenus Oxycoccus, or in some treatments, in the distinct genus Oxycoccus.
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- For the Tokyo University supercomputer, see Gravity Pipe.
GRAPE, or GRAphics Programming Environment is a software development environment for mathematical visualization, especially differential geometry and continuum mechanics.
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Grossulariaceae
Genus: Ribes
L.
Species
See text
Ribes is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants, usually treated as the only genus in the family Grossulariaceae.
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Genus: Ribes
L.
Species
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Ribes is a genus of about 150 species of flowering plants, usually treated as the only genus in the family Grossulariaceae.
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Cyanococcus
Rydb.
Species
See text.
Blueberries are flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus. The species are native to North America, eastern Asia and Northern Europe.
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Rydb.
Species
See text.
Blueberries are flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus. The species are native to North America, eastern Asia and Northern Europe.
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R. uva-crispa
Binomial name
Ribes uva-crispa
L.
The gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa (syn. R.
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Binomial name
Ribes uva-crispa
L.
The gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa (syn. R.
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Fragaria
L.
Species
20+ species; see text
The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae and the fruit of these plants. There are more than 20 named species and many hybrids and cultivars.
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L.
Species
20+ species; see text
The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae and the fruit of these plants. There are more than 20 named species and many hybrids and cultivars.
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blackberries (singular, blackberry; genus Rubus, subgenus Eubatus; also called bramble or occasionally "bramble raspberry") are a widespread and well known group of several hundred closely related apomictic microspecies, native throughout the
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The raspberry (plural, raspberries) is the edible fruit of a number of species of the genus Rubus. The name originally refers in particular to the European species Rubus idaeus
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