pome fruit. A simple fleshy fruit, the outer portion of which is formed by the floral parts that surround the ovary.
postemergence herbicide. Herbicide applied after the emergence of weeds.
Pome A type of fleshy fruit represented by the apple, pear or related genera. A fruit with a papery or bony core at the center and with sepals or scars from which the sepals have fallen at the blossom end.
pome fruit A fruit having a core, such as an apple, pear, or quince.
pomology The science of fruits and the art of fruit cultivation, especially fruit trees.
Asian pome fruits are distinctive, not because the popular Asian varieties are larger than those cultivated in North America, but because each piece of fruit receives personal attention.
Pome - fruit developed largely from the receptacle which surrounds the carpels or inedible core parts, as in Malus spp. (apple) and Pyrus pyrifolia (sand pear).
Pome Fruits: Apples & Pears, by Ed Fackler
Stone Fruits: Peaches, Plums, Apricots, Nectarines & Cherries, by David Cain
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Fruit is a berry-like pome that is edible and appeals to both man and wildlife, especially birds. Sweet and juicy, it can be eaten fresh, canned, frozen, made into jams and pies, or dried and eaten like raisins.
Not only does quince flower beautifully, it produces an aromatic, tasty fruit, called a pome. While it's much like its close kin, the pear (Pyrus communis), a pome is slightly grainier and only about 2 inches in diameter.
The plum curculio (PC), a native of North America, is a major pest of pome and stone fruits in the United States and Canada east of the 100th meridian.
In particular, it is extremely detrimental where stone fruits (such as peaches, plums, and apricots) are interplanted with pome fruits (such as apples and pears).
These viruses also cause diseases in other fruit crops: apple chlorotic leaf spot virus causes pear ring pattern mosaic and has been found in all pome and stone fruit species; apple stem pitting virus is the causal agent of pear vein yellows.
 See also: Flower, Spring, Soil, Plant, Horticulturist
  
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