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Drupes

Ricinella rubusidaeus

Classification

Family
Muricidae

In botany, a drupe, or stone fruit, is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pit, stone, or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside. Drupes do not split open to release the seed, i. e.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 26France · 4