An interesting fruit not often talked about is the [Osage Orange]? fruit. it resembles a bright green tennis ball with convolusions like a brain. It is a heavy fleshy fruit that appears NOT to be eaten by any animal today. This is unusual as almost all large fleshy fruits' primary mode of [seed dispersal]? is by consumption by large animals. One predominate theory today is that the Osage Orange fruit was eaten by a giant sloth? that lived along side of the giant Saber-toothed animals, all now extinct in North America. |
Most of the above are included in a classification of flowering plants, starting at Magnoliophyta. I know it's incomplete and has been growing only slowly, but I'm nowhere close to an expert. Anyway, pages on the above could link back to families like Rosaceae, once those exist. |
Most of the above are included in a classification of flowering plants, starting at Magnoliophyta. I know it's incomplete and has been growing only slowly, but I'm nowhere close to an expert. Anyway, pages on the above could link back to families like Rosaceae, once those exist. |
Some edible fruits:
Most of the above are included in a classification of flowering plants, starting at Magnoliophyta. I know it's incomplete and has been growing only slowly, but I'm nowhere close to an expert. Anyway, pages on the above could link back to families like Rosaceae, once those exist.