Sweet and Savory Stone Fruit Recipes. Or fruits that have outer flesh encasing an inner pit. With fruit that's fully ripe but not too soft. Brown rot is a common and destructive disease of peach and other stone fruits (plum. The inner surface of each. Remove wild or neglected stone fruit trees that. Fruit families and. Identifies this fruit. The inner flesh is soft and. Also called a pit or stone, identifies this fruit. The inner flesh is soft. The inner usually woody layer of the pericarp of a fruit such as the stone of a peach? Inner soft part of a fruit stone starting with k?

Fleshy Fruits (Pericarp Is Fleshy At Maturity) Note: In most fleshy fruits, the carpels are fused together and are not distinct as in dehiscent dry fruits. A notable exception is the hesperidium. Berry: All or most of pericarp fleshy.

Although it is called a 'vegetable,' the tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum) is technically a botanical fruit referred to as a berry. Most of the interior tissue of a true berry is soft and fleshy. Pomegranate: An Unusual Berry Pomegranate ( Punica granatum), showing persistent calyx at the top of fruit. The calyx is cut away on right fruit to show the numerous stamens. The fruit is technically a leathery-skinned berry containing many seeds, each surrounded by a juicy, fleshy aril.

The pomegranate tree is native to Africa and the Near East. Hebrews decorated their buildings with pomegranate motifs, and the beautiful, many-seeded fruits became associated with a symbol of fertility and abundance. In Asia, pomegranates were offered to wedding guests who threw them on the floor of the honeymoon suite, shattering the fruits and scattering the bright red seeds. This practice was believed to insure fertility and a large number of offspring for the newlyweds.

The French word for a pomegranate is 'grenade,' which also refers to a hand-thrown bomb that scatters deadly metal fragments (shrapnel) instead of seeds. Possessed Eyes Of Horror Rar. Pepo: Berry with hard, thick rind. The watermelon is a good example of a pepo, a berry with a hard, thick rind. This is a triploid, seedless 'yellow watermelon' ( Citrullus lanatus var. Although it is sold as 'seedless,' there are some seeds in the fleshy interior.

Some species in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) produce a dehiscent capsule rather than a pepo. This wild cucumber fruit ( Marah macrocarpus) splits open at one end exposing four chambers, each containing several large seeds. Hesperidium: Berry with a leathery rind. The lemon ( Citrus lemon) is a hesperidium, a berry with a leathery rind. The exocarp (peel) contains volatile oil glands (essential oils) in pits. The fleshy interior (endocarp) is composed of separate sections (carpels) filled with fluid-filled sacs (vesicles) that are actually specialized hair cells.

Close-up view of the peel (exocarp) of a lemon ( Citrus lemon) showing numerous pits containing volatile oil glands. Essential oils (terpenes and phenolic compounds) in the pits are responsible for the aroma given off when the peels are bruised or ground up. The fragrant perfume called bergamot comes from the fruit rinds of Citrus bergamia ( C. Aurantium ssp. Essential oils in the pits of skins are extracted by maceration and modern hydraulic presses. The bitter chemical found in the mesocarp and parchment-like layers (partitions) surrounding the sections (carpels) of citrus fruits is limonin.

Magnified longitudinal view of the endocarp of an orange ( Citrus sinensis) showing several sections (carpels) filled with numerous fluid-filled 'juice sacs. Sparks Halfnelson Rar on this page. ' The two lower sections each contain a seed which is surrounded by the fleshy sacs.

The sacs (vesicles) are actually swollen (plump), specialized hairs. According to K. Esau ( Anatomy of Seed Plants, 1960), the juice sacs originate as multicellular hairs in which the interior of the enlarged distal part breaks down and fills with liquid. The juice sacs constitute the fleshy, edible pulp of an orange and are the source of the sweet juice. A bitter compound called limonin occurs in the mesocarp (rind) and membranous layers (partitions) surrounding the seed-bearing sections of grapefruits and other members of the citrus family (Rutaceae). Drupe: Seed enclosed within a stony endocarp (pit). A 'California' peach ( Prunus persica), a freestone peach grown in California's fertile Central Valley.