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  2. Hura crepitans - Wikipedia

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    The sandbox tree can grow to 60 metres (200 ft) in height, [7] and up to 13 metres (44 ft) in girth at 1.8 metres (6 ft) above the ground; [8] its large ovate leaves grow to 60 cm (2 ft) wide. The trees are monoecious, with red, un-petaled flowers. Male flowers grow on long spikes, while female flowers grow alone in leaf axils.

  3. Which Trees Produce Spiky Round Balls? Here's How to ... - AOL

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    These distinctive fruits can help narrow down the plant you're curious about because there are only a handful of spiky trees that make these spherical, prickly pods. While they can make it painful ...

  4. Manchineel - Wikipedia

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    Although the plant is toxic to many birds and other animals, the black-spined iguana (Ctenosaura similis) is known to eat the fruit and even live among the limbs of the tree. [ 10 ] The tree contains 12-deoxy-5-hydroxyphorbol-6-gamma-7-alpha-oxide, hippomanins, mancinellin, and sapogenin .

  5. Panicle - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a panicle. In botany, a panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. [1] Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower).

  6. Spadix (botany) - Wikipedia

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    Spike of fruits- showing in succession (from below) female flowers, male flowers, and sterile flowers forming a ring of hairs borne on the spadix. Diagram of spadix In botany , a spadix ( / ˈ s p eɪ d ɪ k s / SPAY -diks ; pl. : spadices / ˈ s p eɪ d ɪ s iː z / SPAY -dih-seez , / s p eɪ ˈ d aɪ s iː z / spay- DY -seez ) is a type of ...

  7. Glochid - Wikipedia

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    Biopsy of these lesions will reveal that they contain glochidia. Glochidia may be transferred to the workers' clothing and thence to other individuals. It is recommended that the fruit should be picked only when wetted, and picking should be stopped when it is windy since the glochidia can become airborne. [5] [8] [9]

  8. Caryota mitis - Wikipedia

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    Leaves can be up to 3 m (10 feet) long. Each leaf is made of many pairs of leaflets shaped like tail fins that give this palm its name. [11] Flowers are purple and grow on hanging spikes. [11] Its fruits turn dark purple or red when they are ripe, they are harmful to humans. [8] [12] The tree slowly deteriorates not long after it bears fruit. [11]

  9. Drupe - Wikipedia

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    One definition of berry requires the endocarp to be less than 2 mm (3 ⁄ 32 in) thick, other fruits with a stony endocarp being drupes. [6] In marginal cases, terms such as drupaceous or drupe-like may be used. [3] [6] The term stone fruit (also stonefruit) can be a synonym for drupe or, more typically, it can mean just the fruit of the genus ...