drupe
A fleshy or pulpy fruit with the inner portion of the pericarp (1-celled and 1-seeded, or sometimes several-celled) hard or stony.
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Drupe - "stone fruit", a simple fruit produced from a single carpel, usually one-seeded, with an outer fleshy layer of tissue called the pericarp and an inner, heavy stony layer called the endocarp .
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A type of fruit that has a fleshy outside and an hard inner shell or stone. Many drupes are eaten. Some examples include almonds, blackberries and cherries.
Drupe - A fruit with an outer skin, a succulent middle, and a hard inner shell enclosing a single seed.
Entire - A leaf margin with smooth, untoothed edges.
Drupe A stone-bearing fruit, such as a plum.
Dwarf Said of a genetically smaller plant, often 1/4 or less normal size.
Edging plant A compact, short plant used to line or trim borders.
DRUPE - A type of fruit (i.e. plums, cherries, olives, peaches). Also considered stone fruits. The fruit wall is fleshy. The outside layer is generally juicy. The one seed fruit will not open up.
drupe fruit See stone fruit.
dwarfed Restricted plant size without loss of health and vigor.
DRUPE: A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed.
Fruit: A drupe borne on upright panicles. Fruits are dark red, round and hairy, 1/8 inch in diameter.
Bark: Dark brown and scaly with age.
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Since the bright red drupes often persist through winter, they make a meal for spring migrants as well. The fruits (not cranberries) are safe for human consumption and are most often used for making jelly. V.
The tree's fruit is a bright red, oblong, cherry-shaped drupe about 3/4 of an inch long and contains a single seed. Though edible, you've got to be pretty hungry (or a bird) to properly appreciate this fruit's insipid flavor.
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Pyrene- The pit or seed of a drupe which is surrounded by a bony endocarp.
Pyric- Resulting from, induced by, or associated with burning.
Ramet- An individual member of a clone, derived from an ortet.
Raspberries, a close relative to the strawberry, are an aggregate fruit consisting of a large number of drupelets on a receptacle. As ripe berries are picked, the receptacle is left on the plant.
Redosier Dogwood is a deciduous branching shrub with intricate veining in its leaves and lovely white flowers that produce drupes. An excellent addition to any winter landscape and is adapted to both wet and dry climates.
Nightshade, Lycianthes rantonnei; the exotic looking and ubiquitous White Potato Creeper, Solanum jasminoides, all belonging to the sub-family Solanoides. Flowers are often of pale shades of mauve, pink or white, and the fruits (berries or drupes) ...
The horizontal branching habit of the dogwood is also unusually graceful and brings to mind the elegance of Oriental artwork. Many of the bright red fruits (or "drupes") linger into the cold weather, shining like Christmas ornaments against bleak, ...
drupe search for term- n. (Gr. dryppa, an overripe olive) a fleshy or pulpy fruit with the inner portion of the pericarp hard or stony and enclosing the seed; usually 1-locular and 1-seeded, sometimes more than 1-locular and more than 1-seeded.
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