Fruit

Preface by Ken Arnold
Foreword by Stephen D. Hopper
Fruit - Edible, Inedible, Incredible
What is a Fruit
What is a fruit and what is a vegetable?
Angiosperms, Gymnosperms and those that copulate in secret
The naked-seeded ones
The non-naked-seeded ones
An abominable mystery
Angiosperm extremists
No Flower, no Fruit?
Is a pine cone a fruit?
No Carpel, no Fruit?
A shameless display
Not quite the ovary of Eve
Unwitting couriers
Wind, sex and gender separation
What's in a Fruit?
Babylonian confusion
Enhanced female performance
How to be a carpologist
The true meaning of fruits
Simple Fruits
The truth about berries
The miraculous miracle berry
Golden apples
Fragrant citrons
Buddha's hand
Sizeable pepos
Soft shell, hard core or how to be a drupe
Nuts about nuts
Walnuts or waldrupes?
Glans quercus
Two fruits in one - cashew nut and cashew apple
Wheat "grain" and sunflower "seed" - caryopsis and achene
Samaras - nuts gone airborne
Cypselas - achenes gone airborne
Pods and such like
Capsules or seven ways to open a fruit
Teeth, fissures, cracks and lids
Follicle and coccum
Pods as in "pea pods"
Sweet bean pods
TheWorld's largest bean pod
Seeds in prison
Inside-out drupes
To be or not to be a drupe
Multiple Fruits - Several fruitlets from a single flower?
Schizocarpic Fruits or how to emulate the multiple experience
Anthocarpous Fruits - the carpologists' touchstone
Compound Fruits - A single fruit from several flowers?
The breadfruit and the Mutiny on the Bounty
The largest fruit a tree can bear
Figs, gnats and sycophants
Angiosperms with cones?
Carpological Troublemakers
Bogus fruits and how to debunk them
So what is a Fruit?
The biological function of fruits and seeds
Dispersal - the many ways to get around
Wind dispersal
Wings
Monoplanes
Flying discs
Spinning cylinders
Shuttlecocks
Woolly travellers
Love-in-a-puff and other balloon travellers
Anemoballism
Water dispersal
Dispersal by raindrops
Plants that do it for themselves
Hygroscopic tension
Hydraulic pressure
Animal Dispersal
Becoming attached
The story of the sadistic Tribulus
In the claws of the devil
How to catch a bird
Dispersal by scatter-hoarders
Dispersal by ants
Combining Strategies
Directed Dispersal
Fleshy Fruits
The evolution of fleshy fruits
The good, the bad and the ugly, or why fruits are poisonous
Enough is as good as a feast
Young and dangerous
Climacteric fruits
One bad apple spoils the barrel
Dispersal syndromes, the sign-language of fruits
The bird-dispersal syndrome
How to catch the eye of a bird
Fleshy seeds
Flashy seeds
Dangerous beauty
Colourful appendages
Arillate seeds and the fate of New York
Dispersal by mammals
The bat dispersal syndrome
Monkey fruits - the primate-dispersal syndrome
Monkey apple
The Queen of Fruits
Cacao - food of the gods
The baobab
Durian - the King of Fruits
A big fruit needs a big mouth - the megafaunal dispersal syndrome
Africa's large mammals and their fruits
Sausages that grow on trees
Fruits that only elephants like
When the elephants are gone
The aardvark and its cucumber
Mallotus nudiflorus and the Indian rhinoceros
The nitre bush and emus
Galapagos tomatoes and giant tortoises
More inseparable couples
Till death do us part
The dodo and the tambalocoque - a textbook fairy tale
Anachronistic fruits
Size no longer matters
The largest fruit of America
Osage orange
How can it be true?
Where have all the mammoths gone?
The Millennium Seed Bank Project
Lusciousness - The crafted image in a digital environment
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Plants illustrated
Footnotes
Picture Credits
Acknowledgments

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