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Old 02-10-2003, 08:32 PM
Stewart Robert Hinsley
 
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Default Questions on chemistry of fruits

In article , P van
Rijckevorsel writes
They are not fruits (botanically speaking). The berry of yew is an aril, a
later outgrowth. I am a little unsure what a juniperberry is but I would
suppose a cone is as good as anything I can come up with at short notice.


Stace says "female cones berry-like, with succulent +/- fused cone
scales"
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Stewart Robert Hinsley