FRUIT EMERGENCE

Fruit emergence: woody projection, sometimes with hooks, is on the outer fruit wall.

Examples:

  1. The armed fruit of a member of the Cucurbitaceae; fruit of manroot from the Santa Monica Mountains, California, Marah macrocarpus
  2. White bursage, Ambrosia dumosa of the Mojave Desert
  3. Schizocarp of puncture vine, Tribulus terrestris
  4. Caesalpinia bonduc: another view
  5. Sharp projections on fruits of the genus Datura in Michoacan, Mexico
  6. Fruits of Acaena
  7. Blunted projections on developing fruits of the genus Canna

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