A silique or siliqua (plural siliques or siliquae) is a type of fruit (seed capsule) having two fused carpels with the length being more than three times...
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brown, translucent, disc-shaped siliques (not true botanical seedpods), sometimes called moonpennies. When a silique is ripe and dry, a valve on each...
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Fruits can develop out of cross-pollination or self-pollination, and are silique structured, that open at maturity through dehiscence or drying to bare...
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plants; these fruits include capsules, follicles, legumes, silicles and siliques. When fruits do not open and release their seeds in a regular fashion,...
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and style. Two of the six stamens have shorter filaments. The fruit is a silique that opens at maturity through dehiscence to reveal brown or black seeds...
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Samara – (ash, elm, maple key). Schizocarp, see below – (carrot seed). Silique – (radish seed). Silicle – (shepherd's purse). Utricle – (beet, Rumex)...
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derived from multiple carpels are capsules or siliques. One example of a dehiscent fruit is the silique. This fruit develops from a gynoecium composed...
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to overtop the flowers. The fruit is a long (3-8 cm) narrow cylindrical silique which stays green when ripe and is slightly torulose (i.e. with lumps where...
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slender, 3-valved "pods" resembling an indehiscent silique (in contrast with a true dehiscent silique). Fruits of M. oleifera (drumstick), are a major agricultural...
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vegetable in various dishes.[citation needed] The seeds of radishes grow in siliques (widely referred to as "pods"), following flowering that happens when left...
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fruit like a siliqua, but stouter, not more than twice as long as wide. silique siliqua A dry, dehiscent fruit (in contrast to a silicula, more than twice...
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the plant produce glabrous or sparsely bristled seed pods. Each fruit (silique) contains roughly a half dozen seeds. The plants are harvested for their...
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sepals. The fruit is a silique 3–5 cm long with a beak 1–2 cm long that is flattened-quadrangular. The valves of the silique are glabrous or rarely bristly...
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hypogaea (peanuts). Capsules derived from two carpels include silicles and siliques that dehisce along two suture lines but retain a partition called the replum...
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dry, capsular, formed of two long follicles, and opens lengthwise like a silique. Many cultivars have been created: Sundaville® 'Moulin Rouge' with red...
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long, called a silique, green maturing to pale grey brown, containing two rows of small shiny black seeds which are released when a silique splits open....
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capsules that open with two valves, usually towards the top. These are called silique if at least three times longer than wide, or silicle if the length is less...
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of mustardlike flowers with white petals. The fruit is a narrow, flat silique up to 8 to 10 centimeters long. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Thelypodium milleflorum"...
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flowers with yellowish sepals and four yellow petals. The fruit is a narrow silique which is torulose, or constricted between the seeds. Blooming occurs in...
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A siliqua is a Roman silver coin. Silique is a botanical term for a fruit of two fused carpels with the length being more than twice the width. Siliqua...
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half a meter long. The mustardlike flowers are pink to lavender and yield siliques up to 6 centimeters long. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Malcolmia...
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is white to yellow. In late summer or autumn the fruit appear; they are siliques about 20–50 centimetres (8–20 in) long, full of small flat seeds, each...
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with four lavender to deep pink petals. The fruit is an inflated, hairy silique up to two centimeters long. A. deltoidea is cultivated as groundcover,...
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exposing numerous small (0.5–1 mm), brown seeds. If moisture is present the silique closes, protecting the seed and opening again upon dryness to allow for...
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fewer than 10 yellow mustardlike flowers. The fruit is a lance-shaped silique one or two centimeters long, containing several winged seeds. "NatureServe...
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raceme of 6 to 15 flowers with purple petals. The fruit is a straight silique up to 4 centimeters long. This plant grows in subalpine climates at the...
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petioles, shorter inflorescence stems, reduced fertility, and shorter siliques. In the case of GALT31A, it has been found to be essential for embryo development...
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bears several yellow flowers. The fruit is a flat, twisted, oval-shaped silique under a centimeter long containing a few unwinged seeds. Jepson Manual...
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sometimes peppery flavor similar to mustard greens. The fruit is a dehiscent silique, a slender and spindle-shaped capsule, and measures 12 cm in length and...
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flowers with yellow petals just a few millimeters long. The fruit is an oval silique up to about a centimeter long and containing several seeds. "Lady Bird...
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