Fill in the table “Fruit types”
November 13, 2020 | Education
| A type | Name | Characteristic | Example |
Dry
polyseeds fruit |
Bean | A unilocular fruit opening at two seams. The seeds are located on the walls of the fruit | Peas, beans, soybeans, lentils, vetch |
Pod | A fruit that opens with two flaps. The seeds are located on the inner septum | Cabbage, radish, mustard, radish, shepherd’s purse | |
Box | Fruit that breaks open, holes or breaks apart | Poppy, tulip, dope, henbane, flax | |
Dry
single-seeded fruit |
Nut
(nut) |
Non-opening fruit with woody pericarp | Hazel, linden, gravilat, lotus |
Acorn | Non-opening fetus with a leathery pericarp, partially submerged in the operculum | Oak, beech | |
Dry
single-seeded fruit |
Achene | Non-opening unilocular fruit with a leathery pericarp, often with various outgrowths | Sunflower, dandelion, string, cornflower |
Weevil | Non-opening unilocular fruit with a membranous pericarp close to the seed coat | Wheat, rye, rice, corn, barley | |
Juicy single-seeded fruits | Drupe | Fruit with a hard, woody intracarp, succulent pericarp and filmy colored exocarp | Cherry, apricot, plum, peach, viburnum, mango |
Juicy multi-seeded fruits | Mnogokostyanka | Combined fruit. Formed from flowers with a large number of pistils. Represents small drupes fused together | Raspberry, blackberry, stoneberry, cloudberry |
Berry | Unilocular or multi-celled non-opening fetus | Currants, grapes, potatoes, tomato | |
Apple
(bull’s eye) |
Fruits with a cartilaginous intracarp. In addition to the ovary, other parts of the flower are involved in the formation of the fetus. | Apple tree, pear, mountain ash, hawthorn | |
Pumpkin | Fruit with an exocarp stiffening when ripe. In addition to the ovary, the receptacle participates in the formation of the fetus. | Cucumber, watermelon, melon, pumpkin, zucchini | |
Fraga
(strawberry) |
Multi-roots with a fleshy receptacle overgrown during ripening | Strawberries,
Strawberry |
|
Hesperidius
(orange) |
Multi-celled fruit, composed of three layers: flavedo, albedo and pulp | Orange, tangerine, lemon |
