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Hippophae is the genus of sea buckthorns, deciduous shrubs in the family Elaeagnaceae. The name sea buckthorn may be hyphenated [1] to avoid confusion with the unrelated true buckthorns (Rhamnus, family Rhamnaceae). It is also referred to as sandthorn, sallowthorn, [2] or seaberry. [3] It produces orange-yellow berries, which have been used ...
Description and biology. [edit] Sea buckthorn leaves, thorns, and berries. Hippophae rhamnoides is a hardy, deciduous shrub that can grow between 2 and 4 m high (between 7 and 13 ft). [ 3 ] It has a rough, brown or black bark and a thick, grayish-green crown. [ 3 ] The leaves are alternate, narrow and lanceolate, with silvery-green upper faces ...
The fruit of the mangosteen is sweet and tangy, juicy, somewhat fibrous, with fluid-filled vesicles (like the flesh of citrus fruits), with an inedible, deep reddish-purple colored rind when ripe. [5] [6] In each fruit, the fragrant edible flesh that surrounds each seed is botanically endocarp, i.e., the inner layer of the ovary.
The mature fruit is 40–50 cm in diameter and weighs 15–30 kg, and contains the largest seed in the plant kingdom. [13] The fruit, which requires 6–7 years to mature and a further two years to germinate, is sometimes also referred to as the sea coconut, love nut, double coconut, coco fesse, or Seychelles nut. [14]
Prunus maritima is a deciduous shrub, in its natural sand dune habitat growing 1–2 meters (– feet) tall, although it can grow larger, up to 4 m (13 ft) tall, when cultivated in gardens. The leaves are alternate, elliptical, 3–7 centimeters (– inches) long and 2–4 cm (– in) broad, with a sharply toothed margin.
Fruit. Various fruits arranged at a stall at the Municipal Market of São Paulo. Fresh fruit mix of blackberries, strawberries, and raspberries. In botany, a fruit is the seed -bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy). Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as ...
Drift seeds (also sea beans) and drift fruits are seeds and fruits adapted for long-distance dispersal by water. Most are produced by tropical trees, and they can be found on distant beaches after drifting thousands of miles through ocean currents. This method of propagation has helped many species of plant such as the coconut colonize and ...
Posidonia oceanica, commonly known as Neptune grass or Mediterranean tapeweed, is a seagrass species that is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. [2] It forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the ecosystem. The fruit is free floating and known in Italy as "the olive of the sea" (l'oliva di mare[3]).