NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Drupes have an outer skin covering a soft, fleshy fruit. The fruit surrounds a single, hard stone, or pit, which contains the seed. Cherries, apricots, nec-tarines, peaches, and plums are all drupes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Drupes have an outer skin covering a soft, fleshy fruit that surrounds a single, hard stone, or pit, which contains a seed.

Detailed explanation-3: -In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pit, stone, or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mesocarp. The mesocarp (from Greek: meso-, “middle” +-carp, “fruit") is the fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit; it is found between the epicarp and the endocarp. It is usually the part of the fruit that is eaten.

Detailed explanation-5: -Exocarp (a.k.a., epicarp) refers to the outermost layer of the pericarp-which is variously called the skin, rind, peel, or husk of a fruit-that covers the mesocarp.