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Fruit<\/em><\/strong>. The word itself conjures up mouthwatering memories of crunchy apples, luscious strawberries, sweet bananas, succulent melons and juicy pineapples, to which we can add the splendid tropical fruits on our supermarket shelves. They are one of nature’s most wonderful gifts but providing us with a healthy source of food is not the reason that plants produce such delicious fruits. It is therefore quite legitimate to ask what fruits are, and why they exist. As will be revealed, the true nature of fruits is concealed in what is buried in their core: their seeds. The key role that both play in the survival of each species explains the manifold strategies and ruses that plants have developed for the dispersal of their seeds. Whether these involve wind, water, humans, animals or the plant’s own explosive triggers, they are reflected in the many colours, shapes and sizes of the fruits that protect the seeds and in the extraordinary way that some fruits have adapted to the animals that disperse their seeds, and the animals to the fruits they relish. In this pioneering collaboration, visual artist Rob Kesseler and seed morphologist Wolfgang Stuppy use scanning electronmicroscopy to obtain astonishing images of a variety of fruits and the seeds they protect. Razor-sharp cross-sections reveal intricate interiors, nuts and other examples of botanical architecture and reproductive ingenuity. The black and white microscope images have been sumptuously coloured by Rob Kesseler highlighting the structure and functioning of the minuscule fruit and seeds some almost invisible to the naked eye and in so doing creating a work of art. Larger fruits, flowers and seeds have been especially photographed. The formation, development and demise of the fruits are described their vital role in the preservation of the biodiversity of our planet explained. Fruits are the keepers of the precious seeds that ensure our future; some are edible, others inedible and many, quite simply, incredible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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
\nForeword by Stephen D. Hopper
\nFruit – Edible, Inedible, Incredible
\nWhat is a Fruit?
\nWhat is a fruit and what is a vegetable?
\nAngiosperms, Gymnosperms and those that copulate in secret
\nThe naked-seeded ones
\nThe non-naked-seeded ones
\nAn abominable mystery
\nAngiosperm extremists
\nNo Flower, no Fruit?
\nIs a pine cone a fruit?
\nNo Carpel, no Fruit?
\nA shameless display
\nNot quite the ovary of Eve
\nUnwitting couriers
\nWind, sex and gender separation
\nWhat’s in a Fruit?
\nBabylonian confusion
\nEnhanced female performance
\nHow to be a carpologist
\nThe true meaning of fruits
\nSimple Fruits
\nThe truth about berries
\nThe miraculous miracle berry
\nGolden apples
\nFragrant citrons
\nBuddha’s hand
\nSizeable pepos
\nSoft shell, hard core or how to be a drupe
\nNuts about nuts
\nWalnuts or waldrupes?
\nGlans quercus
\nTwo fruits in one – cashew nut and cashew apple
\nWheat “grain” and sunflower “seed” – caryopsis and achene
\nSamaras – nuts gone airborne
\nCypselas – achenes gone airborne
\nPods and such like
\nCapsules or seven ways to open a fruit
\nTeeth, fissures, cracks and lids
\nFollicle and coccum
\nPods as in “pea pods”
\nSweet bean pods
\nThe World’s largest bean pod
\nSeeds in prison
\nInside-out drupes
\nTo be or not to be a drupe
\nMultiple Fruits – Several fruitlets from a single flower?
\nSchizocarpic Fruits or how to emulate the multiple experience
\nAnthocarpous Fruits – the carpologists’ touchstone
\nCompound Fruits – A single fruit from several flowers?
\nThe breadfruit and the Mutiny on the Bounty
\nThe largest fruit a tree can bear
\nFigs, gnats and sycophants
\nAngiosperms with cones?
\nCarpological Troublemakers
\nBogus fruits and how to debunk them
\nSo what is a Fruit?
\nThe biological function of fruits and seeds
\nDispersal – the many ways to get around
\nWind dispersal
\nWings
\nMonoplanes
\nFlying discs
\nSpinning cylinders
\nShuttlecocks
\nWoolly travellers
\nLove-in-a-puff and other balloon travellers
\nAnemoballism
\nWater dispersal
\nDispersal by raindrops
\nPlants that do it for themselves
\nHygroscopic tension
\nHydraulic pressure
\nAnimal Dispersal
\nBecoming attached
\nThe story of the sadistic Tribulus
\nIn the claws of the devil
\nHow to catch a bird
\nDispersal by scatter-hoarders
\nDispersal by ants
\nCombining Strategies
\nDirected Dispersal
\nFleshy Fruits
\nThe evolution of fleshy fruits
\nThe good, the bad and the ugly, or why fruits are poisonous
\nEnough is as good as a feast
\nYoung and dangerous
\nClimacteric fruits
\nOne bad apple spoils the barrel
\nDispersal syndromes, the sign-language of fruits
\nThe bird-dispersal syndrome
\nHow to catch the eye of a bird
\nFleshy seeds
\nFlashy seeds
\nDangerous beauty
\nColourful appendages
\nArillate seeds and the fate of New York
\nDispersal by mammals
\nThe bat dispersal syndrome
\nMonkey fruits – the primate-dispersal syndrome
\nMonkey apple
\nThe Queen of Fruits
\nCacao – food of the gods
\nThe baobab
\nDurian – the King of Fruits
\nA big fruit needs a big mouth – the megafaunal dispersal syndrome
\nAfrica’s large mammals and their fruits
\nSausages that grow on trees
\nFruits that only elephants like
\nWhen the elephants are gone
\nThe aardvark and its cucumber
\nMallotus nudiflorus and the Indian rhinoceros
\nThe nitre bush and emus
\nGalápagos tomatoes and giant tortoises
\nMore inseparable couples
\nTill death do us part
\nThe dodo and the tambalocoque – a textbook fairy tale
\nAnachronistic fruits
\nSize no longer matters
\nThe largest fruit of America
\nOsage orange
\nHow can it be true?
\nWhere have all the mammoths gone?
\nThe Millennium Seed Bank Project
\nLusciousness – The crafted image in a digital environment
\nAppendices
\nGlossary
\nBibliography
\nIndex of Plants illustrated
\nFootnotes
\nPicture Credits
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