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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