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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 fruit is a soft, juicy, drupe that is 2.5 cm diameter, though in some cultivars the fruit size may reach up to 6.25 cm long and 4.5 cm wide. The form may be oval, obovate, round or oblong; the skin smooth or rough, glossy, thin but tough.
The fruit is a small round blue-black drupe, 8–16 mm (0.31–0.63 in) long on a reddish stem; it is thick-skinned, sweet, and rather juicy. The stone is oblong oval, flattened. The stone is oblong oval, flattened.
The fruit is a drupe about 4–6 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) in diameter with one or two lobes; each lobe has a single soft, white, oily, kernel contained within a hard shell which is about 2 cm (3 ⁄ 4 in) in diameter. [5] The kernel is the source of candlenut oil. [7]
The fruits are spherical [5] drupes [7] 8 mm in diameter and yellowish-orange. [5] The drupes contain two stones, each with two seeds. [5] In addition to being edible by humans, the drupes are eaten by mammals and birds [2] such as the clay-colored thrush. [8] The lifespan of an Anacua is at least 50 years. [9]
Fruits are usually of medium size, between 2–7 centimetres (0.79–2.76 in) in diameter, globose to oval. The flesh is firm and juicy. The fruit's peel is smooth, with a natural waxy surface that adheres to the flesh. The plum is a drupe, meaning its fleshy fruit surrounds a single hard fruitstone which encloses the fruit's seed.
A berry or bacca was distinguished from a drupe and a pome, both of which also had an unvalved solid pericarp; a drupe also contained a nut (nux) and a pome a capsule (capsula), rather than the berry's naked seeds. [27] Linnaeus' use of bacca and pomum was thus significantly different from that of Caesalpinus. Botanists continue to differ on ...
The ripe fruit is a red, ellipsoidal, berrylike drupe, rich in lipids, about 1 cm (1 ⁄ 2 in) long and is eaten by several bird species. [11] It has a "turpentine-like" taste and aromatic scent, and contains a large seed. Spicebush is dioecious (plants are either male or female), so that both sexes are needed in a garden if one wants drupes ...