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 Garden Botany
Locule: A chamber or cavity of a fruit.
A simple fruit is dispersed as a whole (for example, a berry); a rhexocarpic fruit splits open and the seeds are shed from the fruit (for example, a capsule); and a schizocarpic fruit splits into separate fruitlets, which are dispersed (for example, a dill fruit splits into two fruitlets).
An anthocarp is a fruit formed from the ovary and attached floral parts that have undergone marked development after fertilization in order to aid in the dissemination of the seeds.
www.bbg.org /gar2/topics/botany/parts_fruit.html   (1275 words)

  
 Fruits
This is the fruit of a Poppy (Papaver).
This is the fruit of Stinking Gladwyn (Iris foetidissima).
This is the fruit of a Sunflower (Helianthus annuus).
theseedsite.co.uk /fruits.html   (1283 words)

  
 Fruit Identification Outline
A slender, dry, dehiscent fruit that superficially resemble a legume, except the mustard silique is composed of two carpels with a partition or septum down the center (i.e.
[The legume fruit is composed of a single carpel and does not have the central partition or septum.] This is the typical fruit of the mustard family (Cruciferae or Brassicaceae).
Samaras resemble the winged seeds of a pine, but they are truly one-seeded fruits with a pericarp layer surrounding the seed.
waynesword.palomar.edu /fruitid1.htm   (3210 words)

  
 Olympus MIC-D: Darkfield Gallery - Dandelion Fruit
The dandelion fruits are attached to the seeds by long stalks, and are a critical dispersal mechanism for this weedy perennial herb that depends on wind rather than animals, water, gravity, or fruit eruptions for completing its life cycle.
A fruit, whether wet or dry, is the ripened ovary in which the seeds are borne.
Known as achenes, these fruits are derived from a follicle with a failure of dehiscence (split open, letting seeds fall out) and reduction of the number of seeds to one.
www.olympusmicro.com /micd/galleries/darkfield/dandelionfruit.html   (527 words)

  
 Botany Clipart ETC
Fruit Fruit of the Persimmon, of the Ebony Family.
Linden Fruit The fruit of the Linden, Tilia americana, (Keeler, 1915).
White Ash Fruit This is the fruit, or samara, of White Ash, Fraxinus americana, (Keeler, 1915).
etc.usf.edu /clipart/galleries/Science/botany_7.htm   (1440 words)

  
 Classification of fruit types
A fruit developed solely from the ovary and its contents is known as a true fruit.
A fruit developed from the ovary and its contents plus additional parts of the flower such as the receptacle, petals, and sepals is known as an accessory fruit (e.g.
Multiple Fruit - A fruit formed by the development of a number of pistils often with accessory parts, the pistils being from a number of flowers.
www.unm.edu /~jerusha/fruit_types.htm   (605 words)

  
 Ohio Trees, Bulletin 700-00, Ulmus – Elm
Samaras are 1/3 inch (8 mm) long with long, slender stalks at the base covered with white hairs.
The fruit is a light green, oval-shaped samara (winged fruit) with the seed portion in the center and surrounded entirely by a wing.
It is called a samara, or key, and ripens in the spring as the foliage emerges.
ohioline.osu.edu /b700/b700_30.html   (2615 words)

  
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A fruit is a ripened ovary and most fruits have at least one seed (exception - navel orange) A fruit may have other parts, e.g.
Raspberry and Salmon berry -- receptacle not fleshy; ovaries are fleshy and edible, receptacle is not eaten.
Pome - fruit with a core, from a compound inferior ovary.
www.nsci.plu.edu /~jmain/b340web/pages/securedd.htm   (1301 words)

  
 Samara - About Us - Samara
The Samara Foundation of Vermont adopted the name 'Samara' for the symbolism of seeds and growth, of new life and vitality, of the continuity of life, and of Vermont's native sugar maples.
As the samara spread the maple tree's seed, the Foundation fosters and sustains Vermont's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities by providing funds for projects and establishing an endowment that ensures support into the future.
Samara's co-founders Bill Lippert and David Curtis at the White House attending a meeting for openly gay elected officials.
www.samarafoundation.org /about_sub01.html   (426 words)

  
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Fruit consists mostly of receptacle tissue, with tiny, ripened ovaries borne along the inner wall of the hollow receptacle........................................................................................................................................
Fruit with a thin skin, homogenous texture throughout (except seeds)...................................
Fruit less than twice as long as it is wide.....................
www.uga.edu /fruit/fruitkey.html   (228 words)

  
 Study Abroad & Cultural Immersion with Languages Abroad - Costa Rica - Samara Beach
Samara Beach is quite simply known as one of the safest and prettiest beaches in Costa Rica.
Samara is a small town and students quickly come to know the local population and to feel at home in this warm and welcoming 'pueblo'.
Samara is not only a charming beach town, but also offers a wide choice of friendly restaurants, bars and discos, but, unlike other Pacific Ocean resorts, it is also a thriving fishing and farming community.
www.languagesabroad.com /countries/samara.html   (1797 words)

  
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OR Is the fruit an orange berry, 1"-1 1/2" in diameter?
OR Is the fruit a pear (Bradford pear has branches that all curve upward and a small fruit that does not look like a common pear).
OR Is the fruit husk 1/8"-1/4" thick, the nut 4-ribbed, and the bark on older trunks ridged and furrowed, not shaggy?
www.treelink.org /whattree/wtittext.txt   (5522 words)

  
 Samara (fruit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A samara is a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall.
A samara is a simple dry fruit and indehiscent (not opening along a seam).
A samara is sometimes called a key and is often referred to as a helicopter or whirligig or a polynose.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samara_(fruit)   (176 words)

  
 Documents and Settings\Emillies\Desktop\Images\fruits class 05\Chapter1
Fruits gathered from the wild were mainstays of our diet, being excellent sources of fiber, vitamins, and other healthful or medicinal compounds unbeknownst to us then.
Fruit crops are important agricultural commodities, adding tens of billions of dollars per year to the global economy, and being major sources of income for developing countries.
Fruit primarily ovarian tissue; an aggregation fruitlets on a receptacle.............
www.uga.edu /fruit/chapter1.html   (11813 words)

  
 AZ Master Gardener Manual: Fruit
Fruit consists of the fertilized and mature ovules, called seeds, and the ovary wall, which may be fleshy, as in the apple, or dry and hard as in a maple fruit.
The rest of the fruit arises from the maternal plant, and is therefore genetically identical to that parent.
Multiple fruits are derived from a tight cluster of separate, independent flowers borne on a single structure.
ag.arizona.edu /pubs/garden/mg/botany/fruit.html   (304 words)

  
 Are My Trees Ash?, F-55-04
Samara are 1 to 2 inches in length and 1/4-inch wide; wing partially surrounding the seed.
Samara typically 1-1/4 to 2-1/4-inches long and 1/4 inch or less in length.
Samara are broad to oblong, usually 1 to 1-1/2-inches long, blunt at the base.
ohioline.osu.edu /for-fact/0055.html   (1020 words)

  
 CSR - Riparian Vegetation of LRGV
An important ornamental whose fruit is eaten by a number of different birds and mammals.
Granjeno is a good wildlife food; the fruit is eaten by a number of different birds and mammals while the leaves are heavily browsed by deer.
The fruits are eaten by several species o birds, and the Texas tortoise, Gopherus berlandieri.
www.csr.utexas.edu /projects/rs/valleyveg.html   (1971 words)

  
 Dry Indehiscent Fruit
Grain type fruits are produced by members of the grass family which include important food crops such as rice, corn and wheat.
The Samara is a wind borne fruit containing a single seed.
Winged Samara fruits are characteristic of elms, maples and ashes.
www.jburroughs.org /science/resources/flower/fruit3.html   (283 words)

  
 Species Account: Betula pumila
It is comprised of many small winged fruits (samaras) that scatter when the "cone" falls apart at maturity.
The samara's wings are slightly narrower than the body and broadest near the center.
Betula pumila is recognized by its samara (fruit) wings being more than half as broad as the body, the more or less obovate leaves with more than 10 teeth on each side, and taller stature, up to about 4 m tall.
fishandgame.idaho.gov /cdc/spp_accounts_plants/betpum.cfm   (357 words)

  
 Costa Rica: Hotel La Mansion in Quepos, Costa Rica
The Aparthotel Mirador de Samara is built high on a hill, about 40 meters above sea level, commanding a panoramic view of the village, beach and ocean from every room and terrace.
The new swimming pool of the Aparthotel Mirador de Samara has a size of 11 meters X 6 meters is filled with high quality sweet water from our own 60 meter deep well.
Samara, a beach on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, has maintained its original charming village character.
www.crica.com /hotels/miradorsamara.htm   (875 words)

  
 Samara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Samara (fruit) — a type of winged tree fruit
Samara, Russia — a large city to the east of the Volga River.
Samara River — a river in Russia, left tributary of the Volga River.
www.raleigh-northcarolina.biz /search/Samara.html   (47 words)

  
 Samara Cuisine - London based Lebanese Food and Catering
Samara's favourite Lebanese food is hoummous and fl olives.
The name Samara has many meanings; In Arabic, the origin of the word is Samar, which means entertainment, particularly at night.
In latin, Samara means an Elm Tree, while in Hebrew it has several meanings all to do do with being in a high place like a mountain-top or somewhere with a panoramic view.
www.samaracuisine.co.uk /aboutus.htm   (400 words)

  
 Oregon State University-Horticulture-Hort 233   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Definition of a fruit: The mature ovary, including its one or more seeds and any part of the flower that may be closely associated with the ovary.
Nut (glans) - fruit resembling an akene and having a thick hard pericarp usually developed from a compound ovary.
Pome - fleshy fruit from epigynous flower in which inner portions of carpel wall are thickened or membranous (apple, pear).
oregonstate.edu /Dept/hort/233/class.htm   (499 words)

  
 Oleaceae
Disseminule type: Fruit (dehisced), or fruit (intact or entire), or incomplete fruit with epicarp and mesocarp absent and endocarp exposed, or seed.
Fruits: Pistil(s) compound; 1; 1-pistillate; with carpels united.
Fruit pericarpium; simple, or schizocarp; drupe, or capsule, or samara; baccarium (Spjut 6 families: Apocynaceae, Oleaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Sapindaceae, Saururaceae, Tropaeolaceae); loculicidal capsule, or pyxidium capsule; capsule not inflated; capsule without operculum; berry dehiscent (Ligustrum sempervirens (Franch.) Lingelsh.
nt.ars-grin.gov /sbmlweb/OnlineResources/SeedsFruits/rptSeedsFruitsFamData.cfm?thisFamily=Oleaceae   (597 words)

  
 Samara Beach, Samara, Playa Samara, Costa Rica Beach Hotels, Reservations - Las Palmas
With a breathtaking panoramic indestructible view from the hill, overlooking both Samara and Buena Vista, this unique two level luxury home with 3 bedrooms and an apartment/guest house is perfect.
Samara, long prized by Costa Rica's native population for its idyllic beauty and magnificent turquoise bay, now is a favorite destination of discriminating North American and European visitors.
There is a walled in area in the back that could be used as a stable for horses or to grow vegetables and fruit trees.
samarabeach.com /laspalmas.html   (1238 words)

  
 Flower and Fruit Lab Review
The receptacle is the fleshy portion of the apple or pear, while the fruit (ovary) is the core.
Individual fruit fuse together as they grow and develop producing a single structure.
A samara develops from a single ovary and the pericarp is winged.
www.botany.hawaii.edu /nlc_biology/1411/lab/flower_fruit_lab_review.htm   (245 words)

  
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Dehiscent - fruit is released at maturity by opening at lines/valves/slits along the outside of the fruit
Achene - dry, indehiscent fruit with seed that is attached to the fruit wall such as the pistachio
Samara - fruit that is "winged", dry, and indehiscent
www.msu.edu /course/bot/423/fruitpage.htm   (247 words)

  
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Fruit on drooping catkins that ripen in late spring.......................................................................63
Fruit apple-like or a sphere with one pit.......................................................................................64
Fruit pear-shaped and yellowish; teeth of leaf edges ending in bristle-tips................................
www.northern.edu /natsource/TREESA1/Keytos1.htm   (1270 words)

  
 Fruit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Be sure to always look carefully on the ground and in the tops of trees for fruit.
Below are some brief descriptions of but a small handful of the many types of fruit.
Sycamore maple has a pair of samaras, spreading at about a 45 degree angle, each about 1 1/2 inch long.
www.cnr.vt.edu /dendro/forsite/idfruit.htm   (187 words)

  
 Acer griseum - Paperbark maple - Facts & Pictures
The flowers of the paperbark maple are yellow-green and appear in the spring.
This photo was taken in mid-May. The wings of the samara (fruit) are already obvious, but much of the flower remains.
This picture showing the fruit of the Acer griseum was taken in late June.
www.treetopics.com /acer_griseum/index.htm   (312 words)

  
 Fruit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Be sure to always look carefully on the ground and in the tops of trees for fruit.
Below are some brief descriptions of but a small handful of the many types of fruit.
Sycamore maple has a pair of samaras, spreading at about a 45 degree angle, each about 1 1/2 inch long.
www.fw.vt.edu /dendro/forsite/idfruit.htm   (187 words)

  
 Samara Preseve Land Development, Samara, Costa Rica
Samara has a superb coral reef and its own picturesque wooded island in the
Samara is not only a charming beach resort, with a wide
There is a small airport at Carillo about 5k from Samara.
www.samarapreserve.com   (231 words)

  
 Minnesota Trees
The keys are based on differences in leaves, twigs, fruits, and bark.
Fruit: Samara, ¾"- 1¼" long, U-shaped pairs with nearly parallel wings, mature in autumn.
Fruit: Samara, ½" - 1" long, U-shaped pairs with slightly divergent wings, mature in spring.
www.extension.umn.edu /distribution/naturalresources/DD0486.html   (1899 words)

  
 Long Ago And Far Away 3
Samara was mad at herself and the feelings she couldn't control.
Samara unsheathed her sword, and spun around to see the stranger who had vanished in a flash of light standing in front of her again.
Samara had learnt that Briana just talked, and didn't need many replies, only the occasional "yes", or "Oh", and was quite happy to let her ramble on about anything and everything.
ausxip.com /fanfiction/l/longago3.html   (4408 words)

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