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Examples of achene
achene
An utricle is like an achene, but it has a compound ovary, sometimes with several seeds.
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Reconfiguration of the achene and receptacle metabolic networks during strawberry fruit development.
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Charles Heiser, a world authority on sunflowers, identified the achene as belonging to the domesticated sunflower.
From the newscientist.com
The grapefruit-sized, ovoid fruit has a rough surface, and each fruit is divided into many achenes, each achene surrounded by a fleshy perianth and growing on a fleshy receptacle.
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- Small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
- An achene (also sometimes referred to as "akene" and occasionally "achenium" or "achenocarp") is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and (they do not open at maturity). ...
- A dry, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit, with seed attached to pericarp at a single point.
- A fruit which is small, dry, hard, 1-celled and 1-seeded.
- A dry indehiscent 1-seeded fruit, from an either superior or inferior ovary of 1 carpel, with the seed not fused to the fruit wall; e.g. as in Ranunculaceae (from a superior ovary) and Asteraceae (from an inferior ovary and usually topped by the pappus and sometimes called a cypsela). Fig. ...
- A dry, one seeded, indehiscent fruit. Example 1 - Those little hard things stuck to strawberries. Example 2 - A sunflower seed. Yes, you are eating achenes.
- A simple, one-seeded fruit in which the seed is attached to the ovary wall at only one point, such as the "seed" on the surface of a strawberry.
- A dry one-seeded fruit which does not split. Common in sunflower family and many other flowering plants.
- A small, dry, hard, one celled, one seeded, non-spliting fruit.
