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20: 400: 385: 357: 306: 326: 338: 258: 356: 138:, but does not adhere to it. In many species, what is called the "seed" is an achene, a fruit containing the seed. The seed-like appearance is owed to the hardening of the fruit wall (pericarp), which encloses the solitary seed so closely as to seem like a seed coat. 305: 384: 399: 325: 192:(aka floral tube), which is a structure where basal portions of the calyx, the corolla, and the stamens unite with the receptacle to form a cup-shaped tube. 337: 374:) disperses in the wind, either as single achenes or as the entire aggregate of achenes. The achenes have long hairy appendages that developed from the 19: 274:
is also so similar to an achene that it is often considered to be one, although it derives from a compound inferior ovary (with one
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is a type of fruit that closely resembles an achene, but differs in that the pericarp is fused to the thin seed coat in the grain.
552: 278:). A special term for the Asteraceae fruit is cypsela (plural cypselae or cypselas). For example, the white-gray husks of a 89: 518: 579: 211:
Some achenes have accessory hair-like structures that cause them to tumble in the wind in a manner similar to a
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showing 4 stages of inflorescence, with two reddish-brown flower heads containing cypselas
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with an aggregate of achenes on its outer surface, and what is eaten is accessory tissue.
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A microscopic view of a dandelion "clock" showing the receptacle and the cypselas.
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are sometimes considered achenes although their one-locule ovary is a compound
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produces an aggregate of achene fruits that are encompassed within an expanded
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is like an achene, but the fruit is bladder-like or inflated.
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Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
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are sometimes mistaken for seeds. The strawberry is an
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/əˈkn/
Ancient Greek

privative
χαίνειν
fruit
flowering plants
carpel
indehiscent
seed
pericarp
buttercup
buckwheat
caraway
quinoa
amaranth
cannabis
strawberry
accessory fruit
rose
hypanthium
maple
samara
tumbleweed
diaspore
Anemone virginiana
caryopsis
grain
utricle

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