Mangoes are known for their delicious fleshy #fruits. The #mango #fruit is not large berry but a so-called #drupe. In drupes, the innermost layer of the fruit, called "endocarp", is not fleshy like in a #berry (e.g., avocado, grapes or kiwi), but hard and called "#pyrena", "pit" or "stone". Inside the stone, one can find the actual #seed. Cherries, plums and peaches are also drupes.
The seed has 2 large embryonic leaves, so-called "cotyledons" that store nutrients

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This crew consumed 65 species for #PlantsGiving today. The youngest ate roughly .8 lbs of Vaccinium macrocarpon sauce.

33 families. Lamiaceae and Poacaeae tied for the lead. The Trader Joe’s 21 Seasoning Salute my bro-in-law injected the turkey with was a clutch player.

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Solidago sempervirens still blooming here and there on the back dunes of the Jersey coast. #SeasideGoldenrod #iamabotanist #phenology

Solidago sempervirens still blooming here and there on the back dunes of the Jersey coast. #SeasideGoldenrod #iamabotanist #phenology

Field Botany at the Roaring Creek Tract, Weiser State Forest. Talked about the legacy of coal mining in the region, the history of state lands preservation, and met some cool new ferns. Only three field trips left with this gang for the semester.

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Yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis), Tall Timbers, PA.

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Bucknell Botany students, 1912 and 2022. The cliff face remains largely the same after 110 years, but some other things have changed quite a bit.

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@at4rax Wow, that's an incredibly hard question. Aquilegia ist certainly very pretty and one of my favourite #flowers but I usually have a lot of love for the #plants that I'm working with. So, the Boraginaceae and Betulaceae are great, too. I guess, the Cucurbitaceae genus I did my PhD on, #Coccinia (https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.54.3285), might be my favourite among favourites.

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