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Pericarp & Endosperm

The pericarp is the fruit wall that develops from the ovary wall of a flower. It can have three layers - an outer skin, middle layer, and inner layer - that vary in hardness and texture depending on the type of fruit. The endosperm is a nutritive tissue found in seeds that develops from nuclei in the embryo sac and surrounds the embryo, acting as a food reserve that either remains in endospermic seeds or is absorbed by the embryo in nonendospermic seeds.

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Pericarp & Endosperm

The pericarp is the fruit wall that develops from the ovary wall of a flower. It can have three layers - an outer skin, middle layer, and inner layer - that vary in hardness and texture depending on the type of fruit. The endosperm is a nutritive tissue found in seeds that develops from nuclei in the embryo sac and surrounds the embryo, acting as a food reserve that either remains in endospermic seeds or is absorbed by the embryo in nonendospermic seeds.

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pericarp (fruit wall) The part of a fruit that develops from the ovary wall of a flower.

The type of fruit that develops depends on whether the pericarp becomes dry and hard or soft and fleshy. The pericarp can be made up of three layers. The outer skin (epicarp or exocarp) may be tough and hard; the middle layer (mesocarp) may be succulent as in peach, hard as in almond, or fibrous as in coconut; and the inner layer (endocarp) may be hard and stony as in many *drupes, membranous as in citrus fruits, or indistinguishable from the mesocarp, as in many *berries. endosperm A nutritive tissue, characteristic of flowering plants, that surrounds the developing embryo in a seed. It develops from nuclei in the *embryo sac and its cells are triploid. In endospermic seeds it remains and increases in size; in nonendospermic seeds it disappears as the food is absorbed by the embryo, particularly the *cotyledons. Many plants with endospermic seeds, such as cereals and oil crops, are cultivated for the rich food reserves in the endosperm.

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