Fruits and Seeds 



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You will understand more clearly the different types 

 of seed-vessels by looking at this table : 



Fruit ( = seed + seed-vessel) 



Fleshy fruit 



Dry fruit 



One-seeded 

 (Drupe) 



Many-seeded 



One-seeded 



(Nut) 



Many-seeded 

 (Berry) 



Opening by splitting Opening by pores Opening by lid 



We now go on to the right-hand branch of the table. 

 From it you see that, like the fleshy fruits, the dry fruits 

 may be either many- or one-seeded. If a dry fruit is 



Fig. 11. Three types of seed-vessel : (a) Sweet Pea, (6) Wallflower, 

 (c) Pansy. 



many-seeded it must have some arrangement by which 

 it releases the seeds when they are ripe, for they are 

 often so small and so numerous that if they all fell to 

 the earth together in their seed-vessel they would 

 smother each other when they began to grow. Very 



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