Walnuts and their allies
PS walnuts are not nuts.
, Iris Cohen writes
Why not, & if not, what are they?
Stewart Robert Hinsley schreef
Judd & al. say that they're drupes.
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So does everybody else. A nut is a hard dry fruit, eg. an acorn.
The walnut tree has a thick well-fleshed fruit, of which the pericarp is
commonly called a husk.
Walnuts are drupes, as are coconuts. As to peanuts ...
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