EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Drupes (stone fruit): Drupes are very common and include mangos, cherries, pears, olives, plums, and coffee “berries”. Plants that produce drupes often co-evolved with different animals for seed dispersal.

Detailed explanation-2: -A stone fruit or drupe, meanwhile, is a fleshy fruit with a hard pit inside which contains a single seed (peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, etc). Drupes have a fleshy mesocarp but a tough, leathery endocarp. An avocado is fleshy throughout, so it cannot be considered a drupe.

Detailed explanation-3: -The membrane is encased in an edible layer of flesh. Trees are deciduous and have a dormant winter period that requires cold temperatures for the tree to properly break dormancy in spring. Apples, pears, nashi and quince are pome fruits, grown from spring blossom and harvested from late summer through to late autumn.

Detailed explanation-4: -A drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell (what we sometimes call a pit) with a seed inside. Some examples of drupes are peaches, plums, and cherries-but walnuts, almonds, and pecans are also drupes.