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State fruit: Blackberry: 2004 [3] State tree fruit: Peach: 2006 [4] State dessert: Lane cake: 2016 [5] State vegetable: Sweet potato: 2021 [6] State legume ...
Rosehips, or fruit of various wild Rosa species. Sand Cherry; Fruit of select species of Aralia, also usually known as Spikenards, such as Racemosa. Not all species have safely edible fruit. fruits of the Gaultheria plants. Procumbens fruit is known as Teaberry, whereas Shallon is known as Salal and Hispidula is called Moxie Plum. Ogeechee ...
A number of pressed vegetable oils are either not edible, or not used as an edible oil. The fruit of the amur cork tree Castor beans are the source of castor oil. Astrocaryum vulgare (Tucumã) oil. Amur cork tree fruit oil, pressed from the fruit of the Phellodendron amurense. It has been studied for insecticidal use. [184] [185]
Most often, these seed plants are sweet and enjoyed as dessert (think berries and melons), but some surprising plant varieties with a savory flavor are also considered fruits due to their seeded ...
Prunus avium, sweet cherry P. cerasus, sour cherry Germersdorfer variety cherry tree in blossom. Prunus subg.Cerasus contains species that are typically called cherries. They are known as true cherries [1] and distinguished by having a single winter bud per axil, by having the flowers in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. P. serrula; some species with ...
Malpighia emarginata is a tropical fruit-bearing shrub or small tree in the family Malpighiaceae.. Common names include acerola (from Arabic: الزُّعرُورَة, romanized: az-zuʿrūra "azarole" for a similar looking old-world fruit [4]), Guarani cherry, Barbados cherry, West Indian cherry, [5] and wild crepe myrtle. [6]
The term pulse is used for the seeds of plants from the Fabaceae family (legumes), such as beans, pea, lentil and chickpea. Pulses supply proteins and form chief source in vegetarian food. Leguminous plants fix nitrogen in root nodules - produced with the help of nitrogen fixing bacteria.
The evolution of fruits with a berry-like pericarp has been studied in various flowering plant families. Repeated transitions between fleshy and dry pericarps have been demonstrated regularly. One well-studied family is the Solanaceae , because of the commercial importance of fruit such as tomatoes, bell peppers, and eggplants or aubergines.