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    An achene (/əˈkiːn/; from Ancient Greek ἀ (a) 'privative' and χαίνειν (khaínein) 'to gape'), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp...
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    achenes, drupelets, follicles, and berries. For example, the Ranunculaceae species, including Clematis and Ranunculus, produces an etaerio of achenes;...
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    List of culinary nuts List of edible seeds List of foods Nutmeg Nutcracker Achene "Nut: Plant reproductive body". Encyclopedia Britannica. 6 June 2024. Retrieved...
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    yellow-orange ray florets around a center of yellow disc florets. The fruit is an achene which can take any of three shapes, including ring-shaped, that facilitate...
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    invasive in part because it produces so many of these achenes, up to 1500 per plant, and each achene can catch the wind in its pappus and be carried some...
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  • dandelion achene undergoes binary morphing (opened or closed) of its whisker-like filaments, in unison with chorused responses of the remaining achenes. Pappus...
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    genus Anemone also lack nectar. The fruits are most commonly free, unfused achenes (e.g. Ranunculus, Clematis) or follicles (e.g. Helleborus, Eranthis, Nigella)...
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    both sides, short persistent style 0.4–1 mm long, often strongly recurved achene appressed, rarely straight substraight or slightly recurved. Type: A. vernalis...
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    Between the pappus and the achene is a stalk called a beak, which elongates as the fruit matures. The beak breaks off from the achene quite easily, separating...
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    central Germany. Achenes labelled Ranunculus cf. tachiroei is known from the Pliocene of the Hengduan Mountains of China. Indeterminate achenes have been found...
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    rounded petals. There are multiple superior ovaries that develop into achenes. Roses are insect-pollinated in nature. The aggregate fruit of the rose...
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    'multiple' fruit. A simple fruit is further classified as either dry or fleshy. Achene – most commonly seen in aggregate fruits (e.g., strawberry). Capsule – (Brazil...
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    informally called seeds, are smooth, crescent-shaped, laterally compressed achenes, around 3 mm (1⁄8 in) long, with five pale ridges and a distinctive pleasant...
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    species have evolved samarae, loments, follicles, indehiscent legumes, achenes, drupes, and berries from the basic legume fruit. The Fabaceae are rarely...
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    umbel has five to seven umbellets. The fruit is a lateral fusiform or ovoid achene 4–5 mm (1⁄6–1⁄5 in) long, containing two mericarps with a single seed. Cumin...
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    throughout the year, but mostly in summer. The fruit of this species is an achene (a tiny seed-like fruit), produced in number in a globular structure which...
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    ovaries but from the receptacle that holds the ovaries. Each apparent "seed" (achene) on the outside of the fruit is actually one of the ovaries of the flower...
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    because its bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow five-lobed achene. The first European to describe these plants was Philibert Commerçon, a...
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    regular fashion, they are called indehiscent, which include the fruits achenes, caryopses, nuts, samaras, and utricles. Some seeds (e.g., pine) have a...
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    grains are approximately 34 microns.[citation needed] The fruit is a ribbed achene. The name "chrysanthemum" is derived from the Ancient Greek: χρυσός chrysos...
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    summer to early autumn; pollination is anemophilous. The fruit is a small achene. Seed dispersal occurs by gravity. A. absinthium grows naturally on uncultivated...
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    short racemes. These clusters give way to small triangular achenes, with one seed in each achene. The flowers have 5 sepals, the 3 outer ones are larger...
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    perch where they eat the fruit and discard the seed. Diaspores such as achenes and samarae are dispersed primarily by wind; samaras are dispersed also...
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    single carpel) and indehiscent (not opening at maturity) and resembles an achene, except that in a caryopsis the pericarp is fused with the thin seed coat...
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    At the center are many yellow to brownish disc florets. The fruit is an achene about 5 mm (0.20 in) long. In the wild, H. helianthoides may be found in...
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    purple-red, or orange. Its fruit is a small, inconspicuous, dry, elongated achene. Bougainvillea spectabilis is native to Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Chubut...
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    are pinkish, purplish, or white. The fruit is a dark-colored, resinous achene about half a centimeter long, including its pappus of white or purplish...
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  • type genus is Rosa. achene Dry, one-seeded indehiscent fruit in which the true fruit is not the so-called "berry", but the achenes, which are the so-called...
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    An archeological site in the Oki Islands of Japan contained cannabis achenes from about 8000 BC, probably signifying use of the plant. Hemp use archaeologically...
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    spherical fruit clusters each made up of many hairy, maroon-red-woolly achenes. Depending on the sex, the inflorescence can either be red, if female,...
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