Carissa (Natal plum) produces an edible fruit, but all other parts of the plant are poisonous. [41] The genus Apocynum was reportedly used as a source of fiber by Native Americans. [ 42 ] The aromatic fruit juice from Saba comorensis (syn. Landolphia comorensis , the Bungo or Mbungo fruit ) is used as a drink.

Fruit: A drupe (Thevetia), berry (Carissa), follicle (Nerium, Amsonia). Seed: Endospermic, hairy or winged.

The fruit may be berry-like or fleshy but usually is a dry pod (follicle) that splits open at maturity, releasing many winged or tufted seeds. Major genera and species 1 of 3

8. FRUITS. Fruit of climbing Apocynaceae are variously ornamented including smooth (fig. 6), muricate (fig. 5a), and winged (fig. 5b), mostly of 2(1) distinct mericarps [“follicles], that are dehiscent, rarely indehiscent and segmented, e.g., Condylocarpon; capsules e.g., Allamanda, or berries e.g., Pacouria (fig. 5d). 9. SEEDS.

2018年5月7日 · The most common fruit type in Apocynaceae is solitary or paired, dry follicles bearing comose, wind-dispersed seeds (Appendix S33), a condition almost ubiquitous in the APSA clade. Most fruit variation in the family is concentrated in the rauvolfioid grade where follicles, capsules, berries, drupes, and samaroids occur (Appendices S32, S33).

The Apocynaceae are trees, shrubs, herbs, and vines or lianas, sometimes succulent, usually with milky sap. The family includes about 355 genera and 3,700 species. The leaves are simple, usually opposite and decussate, sometimes whorled or alternate; stipules are reduced or absent.

The fruit is a septicidal capsule, rarely a berry. The seeds are oily endospermous. The Gentianaceae have a mostly worldwide distribution. Economic importance consists primarily of ornamental cultivars such as Eustoma, Exacum, Gentiana (gentian), and Sabatia; some species are used medicinally or as timber.

Flower without a corona, without a gynostegium, stamens distinct; pollen free, sometimes in tetrads; fruits follicles, capsules, drupes, or berries. 1. Flower with a corona of 5 hoods each with an appendage-like horn and with the 5 anthers fused to the stigma as a column-like gynostegium; pollen massed into rigid pollinia; fruits follicles. 1.

Fruit: Thevetia peruviana, pyrene (seed enclosed in endocarp) and with part of endocarp removed; Photo by D. Walters and L. Seastone, USDA APHIS PPQ, imageID.idtools.org

2019年3月29日 · The two main groups of the traditional Apocynaceae were described as the subfamilies Plumerioideae and Echitoideae for the first time by Schumann , who recognized three tribes and six subtribes in Plumerioideae, based mainly on fruit and seed characters: Arduineae (including Melodininae and Landolphiinae), Pleiocarpeae, Plumerieae (including ...