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Following the award-winning Seeds: Time Capsules of Life, Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kesseler explore the fascinating world of fruits through a unique presentation of extraordinary images from around the world accompanied by a lively explanatory text.Preface by Ken Arnold Foreword by Stephen D. Hopper Fruit &ndash; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &ndash; cashew nut and cashew apple Wheat &ldquo;grain&rdquo; and sunflower &ldquo;seed&rdquo; &ndash; caryopsis and achene Samaras &ndash; nuts gone airborne Cypselas &ndash; 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 &ldquo;pea pods&rdquo; Sweet bean pods The World&rsquo;s largest bean pod Seeds in prison Inside-out drupes To be or not to be a drupe Multiple Fruits &ndash; Several fruitlets from a single flower? Schizocarpic Fruits or how to emulate the multiple experience Anthocarpous Fruits &ndash; the carpologists&rsquo; touchstone Compound Fruits &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; the primate-dispersal syndrome Monkey apple The Queen of Fruits Cacao &ndash; food of the gods The baobab Durian &ndash; the King of Fruits A big fruit needs a big mouth &ndash; the megafaunal dispersal syndrome Africa&rsquo;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 Gal&aacute;pagos tomatoes and giant tortoises More inseparable couples Till death do us part The dodo and the tambalocoque &ndash; 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 &ndash; The crafted image in a digital environment Appendices Glossary Bibliography Index of Plants illustrated Footnotes Picture Credits Acknowledgments"}