Fruit terminology

[mike grant]

Thanks to all those who replied, both on and off list, to my request.

A convenient suggestion for the channel through the apple is "hypanthial
tube"; I was referred to Leins et al (1972), full ref and illustrations at:
http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/courses/BOT307/D_Families/307D2Rosahypanthium.
html

The gooseberry two-part "pedicel" is more problematic, but it has been
suggested that the usually solitary flowers represent a reduced condition
from a multi-flowered inflorescence and that the proximal portion is
peduncle and the distal portion is pedicel.

Mike Grant
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