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In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pip (UK), pit (US), stone, or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside. Drupes do not split open to release the seed, i.e., they are indehiscent. [1]
The fruits are small about 3mm in diameter, +/-globular. Berry-like (drupe). Fruit appear to be greenish-orange and it becomes red when mature. Calyx persistent. Fruits are marked by glandular dots and streaks. Endocarp surface is hard which makes it difficult to cut. The fruit is not edible and have no apparent use.
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If distinguishing berries and drupes on account of soft core multiple seeds (berry) and hard core single seed (drupe), it suddenly makes sense why an avocado is a drupe and a water melon a berry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.202.31.103 ( talk ) 12:00, 20 June 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
The drupes are very sour, and they are only edible when unripe, as when ripe the pulp is too scanty and hard. [ 4 ] A 1991 book, based on information from 1985, states that the species is rare and urgently requires conservation in eastern Borneo ; [ 4 ] in 2014, the species's conservation status on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was ...
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