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GLOSSARY TERMS - 'F'

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Fertilization
The act or course of initiating biological reproduction by insemination and pollination.

Fig
A soft, sweet, thin-fleshed fruit with carries many small edible seeds. There are over 620 varieties of figs, which could vary in color from white, green, brown, red, and also purple with shapes that range from round to oval. Fig trees are native to Mediterranean regions and Western Asia, but are grown in many other temperate areas as well. Some of the common varieties of figs are normally classified by color in food stores as black, green, and purple figs. However, many fig producers classify their figs simply as green and yellow varieties or also dark varieties.

Fleshy Fruits
Fleshy fruits can be of several different descriptions or varieties, but major category comes to mind right away: drupes, berries, and from pomes.

Follicle
A follicle (from the Latin folliculus) is a term to describe a small spherical group of cells containing a cavity, and is often used as a expressive term in biology, particularly in anatomy. Examples comprise hair follicles and ovarian follicles.

Fruit
The edible part of a plant, shrub, or tree also developed from a flower and consisting of one or more seeds and the mass of juicy flesh that is used as food.




Apple stuck in Adam's throat
Cabbage-a water vegetable
Tomato is a fruit!
Banana-a cure for heartburn
Peanut is the main component of nitroglycerine
Pumpkins and avocados are fruits
Dark green vegetables are more Vitamin C rich
Banana is not a fruit in reality.
Bananas are easily digestible
Cockroach repellent fruit
An apple tree can produce 400 apples a year
Bilberries improve night vision
Cherry seeds believed to have satanic power
Watermelon used to carry water
Worlds favorite fruit
Strawberries have seeds outside them
Kiwi is rich in Vitamin C
Oranges help fight anti-aging
Eating fruits avoids miscarriage
Eating fruits reduce the risk of diseases
Lemon is a good source of Vitamin C-Prevents Scurvy
7000 apples
Grapes do not ripen once plucked
Banana slip accidents in Britain
Quick ripening
 Lemons kill bacteria
Pear-wood is hard
Banana-the 1st fruit on earth

Special fruits for this week

 

Pluots fruit

Few varieties of pluots are called dinosaur eggs (Read more)

Mangosteen

dark purple fruit-tastes like strawberry (Read more)

African cucumber

taste like combination of banana, cucumber and lemon (Read more)

Papaya

Helps digest Proteins (Read more)


 
 

Are exotic fruits much tastier than other fruits?
  No, only some taste better
  All look and taste nice
  Very bad at taste
  Never tried an Exotic fruit

 
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