Fruits and Seeds
Fruits are the matured ovary of seed bearing plants and they include the contents of the ovary, which can be floral parts like the receptacle, involucre, calyx and others that are fused to it. Fruits are often used to identify plant taxa and help to place the species in the correct family or differentiate different groups within the same family.
Read more about this topic: Glossary Of Plant Morphology
Famous quotes containing the words fruits and/or seeds:
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Jeanne Elium (20th century)