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Fruits

42-Pome

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Pomes are fleshy fruits produced by members of the apple subfamily of the rose family (Rosaceae subfamily Maloideae).

The fleshy tissue produced outside the "core" comes from the hypanthium, while tissue inside the core comes from the carpels.

[Incidentally, that white spongy tissue inside the rind is called the 'albedo'. That same word also refers to the fraction of light reflected from a body or surface. A good example of how one word can have two totally different meanings!]


Photos by K. R. Robertson of plants cultivated in Champaign, Illinois.

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