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25-01-2007, 01:36 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
Philip Wright
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Identify part of a Fruit
A citrus fruit is technically a hesperidium, and the thing left
at the end is the receptacle with attached calyx (sepals).
-Philip
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I've just eaten a mandarin orange and the small star shaped thing at
the end of the fruit, was left on my desk, I wondered what it was
called? I assume it's where the fruit was initially attached to the
tree
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