This glossary definition is part of the Purdue Arboretum learning resource database, providing educational information on campus flora, morphology, and botanical terminology.
Pome
A type of fleshy fruit. This feature is connected to how seeds are protected, nourished, or moved away from the parent plant.
Did you know?
Apples and pears are pomes. The edible flesh forms from tissue around the ovary, not only from the ovary wall.
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