![]() A squash is another botanical fruit that we treat like a vegetable in the kitchen. That green pepper chopped up on your pizza is a botanical fruit, as is the tomato that’s pureed to make the pizza sauce. But some plant parts that, when we wear our chef’s hat, we think of as vegetables, are really botanical fruits. People often think of a fruit from the culinary point of view, considering it to be the part of a plant that has seeds and when ripe is ready to eat, and think of vegetables as a savory food that is any edible part of a plant not associated with seeds (these include roots, stems and leaves). CC BY-SA 3.0Ī fruit, in the botanical sense, is the ripened ovary together with the seeds within the ovary. If you do come across those names in the future, then recall that they relate to the attachment of the ovule within the ovary.Ĭarpel structure, cross section. Remember the locule, but you won’t need to remember funicule, funiculus, or placenta. It also names the chamber in which the ovules hang: the loculus (or locule). ![]() ![]() The photo below shows a bit more detail about the carpel - in particular, the attachment of the ovules within the ovary via a stalk called the funiculus, emerging from the placenta. The ovary, at the base, and housing the ovules that contain the plant’s eggs.The style, the channel of tissue through which the pollen tube grows.The stigma, at the tip, and to which pollen grains adhere.Recall that the carpel is the female reproductive structure that is attached to the top whorl of the flower - the gynoecium node. The graphic to the right shows a cross section of the carpel. That’s a fruit? I thought it was a vegetable! Carpel structure. Identify the difference between a true fruit and an accessory fruit based on structure and tissues.Explain the general characteristics of fleshy and dry fruits.Describe the differences among simple, aggregate, and multiple fruits.Define “fruit” from a botanical point of view.By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
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