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Fruits

8-Follicles, Magnolia

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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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