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Follicle  [ Botany ]
Adjective: Follicular

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names
     
  A dry, dehiscent, many-seeded fruit, derived from a single carpel and opening along only one suture on the side at maturity.  
     

Pod of Orbea variegata (photo by Jan Gielkens)
 Orbea variegata

For example a milkweed pod or the follicular fruit of Magnolias.
 



Left: A follicle (pod) of Orbea variegata

Right: A mature follicle of Stapelia grandiflora


Stapelia grandiflora
   

 

  

 

 

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