Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
More berries
mel turner schreef
Would "berries" include "pepos"? [Probably it should.] + + + Yes + + + Is an avocado a regarded as a "vegetable" or an oily nonsweet "fruit"? If a "vegetable", is it a drupe or a 1-seeded berry? Drupe, as I recall. There reportedly is a thin stony endocarp, not just a seed coat. + + + The lecture I attended had them as berries, but the lecturer was notably unsure of his ground, making some other errors as well. Actually we were worried also about Callicarpa. The local flora (the equivalent of Stewart Robert Hinsley's Stace) describes them as berry-like drupes (which is wonderful for education purposes). Their being drupes is supported by http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/caam2.htm one of the examples of a drupe with multiple stones in them, I suppose. Hard to demonstrate (their being drupes) in the field anyway! PvR |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Elaeagnus - are the berries poisonous? | United Kingdom | |||
[IBC] Cotoneaster - remove old berries? | Bonsai | |||
More berries mean a hard winter - old wives tale? | United Kingdom | |||
holly berries | United Kingdom | |||
Cotoneaster - remove old berries? | Bonsai |