simple fruits
- a single flower with a single pistil
- dry
- achene: strawberry; cannabis; buttercup; buckwheat; caraway; quinoa; amaranth
- capsule: brazil nut; horse-chestnut
- caryopsis: grains, including wheat; rice; oats; barley
- fibrous drupe: coconut; walnut
- follicle: milkweed; magnolia; peony
- legume: bean; pea; peanut
- loment: sweetvetch
- nut: beechnut; hazlenut; oak acorns
- samara: ash; elm; maple key
- schizocarp: carrot seed
- silique: radish seed
- silicle: shepherd’s purse
- utricle: beet
- fleshy
- berry: grape; currant; cucumber; eggplant; tomato; chili pepper; banana; citrus; blueberry; guava; kiwi; pomegranate; lucuma; watermelon; pumpkin; melon
- stone fruit/drupe: apricot; cherry; olive; peach; plum; mango
- pome: apple; pear; rosehip; saskatoon berry
aggregate fruits
- a single flower with numerous pistils
- ex: raspberry; blackberry; boysenberry; magnolia; pawapaw
multiple (composite) fruits)
- merging of several flowers, of a ‘multiple’ of flowers
- ex: pineapple; fig; mulberry; osage orange; breadfruit
hybrid fruits
- nectaplum: nectarines + plums
- pluot, aprium, apriplum, plumcot, plumpicots, pluclots: plum + apricot
- tangelo: Citris reticulata (mandarin orange; tangarine) + Citrus maxima (pomelo; grapefruit)
- jamaican tangelo, ugli fruit, uniq fruit: tangerine or orange + grapefruit or pomelo -
- mandarinquat: mandarin + kumquat
- strawberry: Fragaria virginiana (Virginia strawberry; wild strawberry; common strawberry; mountain strawberry) + Fragaria chiloensis (beach strawberry, Chilean strawberry, coastal strawberry)
- rangpur, mandarin lime, lemandarin: mandarin orange + citron
- blood lime: Citrus australasica (finger lime; caviar lime) + ‘Ellendale Mandarin’ hybrid
- tayberry: blackberry + red raspberry
CITRUS
- citron, Citrus medica
- balady citron - Israel & the West Bank, imported by either Jewish or Greek settlers
- etrog, esrog - yellow citron used by Jewish people during Sukkot
- Buddha's hand, fingered citron, Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis
- Corsican citron, alimea, cedrat - one of the first citrus fruits to reach Corsican soil
- Diamante citron, Citrus medica cv. diamante - Diamante, Italy
- Greek citron, pitima, cedro col pigolo - variety
- Moroccan citron - native to Assads, Morocco
- pompia, pumpia, sa pompia, spompia, China citron, Citrus medica var. tuberosa hybrid; Sardinia
- Clymenia
- lime
- blood lime - Citrus australasica var. sangiunea x 'Ellendale Mandarin' hybrid
- key lime, West Indian lime, Mexican lime, Egyptian lime, Citrus x aurantiifoilia - natural hybrid: wild papeda + citron
- Persian lime, seedless lime, Bearss lime, Tahiti lime, Citrus x latifolia - key lime + lemon
- kaffir lime, Thai lime, makrut lime, Citrus hystrix - native to tropical Southeast Asia
- finger lime, caviar lime, Citrus australasica - costal border region of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia
- desert lime, Citrus glauca - native to Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia
- adajamir, ginger lime, Citrus assamensis - native to Assam (India) and Bangladesh
- mandarin orange, Citrus reticulata
- kanpei, Ehime queen splash - dekopon (デコポン) + nishinokaori (1991); officially introduced August 2007
- tachibana orange, Citrus x tacibana or Citrus retiuculata subsp. tachibana - Japan
- orange: pomelo + tangerine
- bergamot orange, Citrus bergamia - lemon + bitter orange
- bitter orange, sour orange, Seville orange, bigarade orange, marmalade orange, Citrus x aurantium - pomelo + wild type mandarin; native to Southeast Asia
- koji orange, smooth-fruited orange
- sweet oranges, Citrus sinensis - pomelo + mandarin
- blood orange, raspberry orange, - Citrus x sinensis - natural mutation
- navel orange - mutation causing a second fruit at apex
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