Fruits can be classified several ways--see your class notes or click on the "lecture text" button in the lower right of the Digital Flowers window
DRY FRUIT TYPES
The fruit of Magnolia is a cluster of follicles. Bright red seeds hang down from the follicles by the elongate funiculus (seed stalk).
Follicles are dry fruits that develop from a single carpel and that dehisce along one suture.
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