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In botany, a drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp or skin and mesocarp or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries. Some plants that produce drupes are:
The term stone fruit can be a synonym for "drupe" or, commonly, it can mean the fruit of the Prunus species specifically.
Drupes, with their sweet, fleshy outer layer, attract the attention of animals as a foodFood is any substance normally eaten or drunk by living organisms. The term food also includes liquid drinks. Food is the main source of energy and of nutrition for animals, and is usually of animal or plant origin. The study of food is called food scienc, and the plant population benefits from the resulting dispersal of its seeds. The endocarp (pit or stone) can be swallowed (or is just dropped after the fleshy part is eaten), pass through the digestive tract, and returned to the soil in a fecesFeces (also spelled faeces or faeces are the waste products from the digestive tract expelled through the anus during defecation''. In humans, defecation may occur (depending on the individual and the circumstances) from once every two or three days to th with the seed inside unharmed.
The coconutThe Coconut Palm Cocos nucifera L. is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). It is the only species classified in the genus Cocos . The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm. Origins The origins of this plant are the subject of deb is also a drupe, but the mesocarp is fibrous or dry (in this case, called a husk), so this type of fruit is classified as a simple dry fruit, fibrous drupe.
A drupelet is one unit of an aggregate fruit that has essentially the structure of a drupe. Bramble fruitBramble fruit is the fruit of any plant of the genus Rubus such as the blackberry or the raspberry. The word comes from Germanic bram-bezi whence also German Brombeere and French framboise''. Bramble fruits are aggregate fruits''. Each small unit is calles (for example, blackberryThis article is about the fruit. For other uses see blackberry (disambiguation Rubus fruticosus Common Blackberry and hundreds more microspecies (the subgenus also includes the dewberries) The blackberry is a widespread and well known shrub; a bramble fru or raspberryFor the sound that is sometimes referred to as a "raspberry", see Bronx cheer. Rubus idaeus The Raspberry or Red Raspberry Rubus idaeus is a plant that produces a tart, sweet, red composite fruit (not a true berry) in late summer or early autumn. The frui) are aggregates of drupelets.
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