Botany

[Eric Nielsen]

I think my old Systematic Botany teacher would agree with you, Jim.

Eric

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:

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> Bill Palmer wrote:
> > (I had to look up "drupe"...a class of fruit having a peeling, succulent
> > center, and a pit or seed, such as an apple).
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> Hm. My understanding (buttressed by the Britannica) is that a drupe only
> has
> one (or, occasionally, two or three) seeds; a peach is a drupe, but an
> apple is
> not. Apples are pomes. (Pomes have a papery sheath at the core, typically
> enclosing about five seeds.)
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> Jim Parish
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