Question

What is a hesperdium fruit?

Answer 1

Hesperidium fruits:

1. It is a modified berry fruit with characteristic features.
2. Citrus plants generally have hesperidium fruit.

Characteristics of hesperdium:

1. They have an outer rind or peel. The rind or peel of citrus fruits is separated into two parts: an exocarp or flavedo, which is the colorful part on the outside, and a mesocarp or albedo, which is the colorless (white) or tinted component on the inside.
2. The epicarp proper, hypodermis, outer mesocarp, and oil glands make up the flavedo.
3. The epicarp is covered by a cuticle or multilayered protective covering.
4. A thick film or endocarp surrounds the soft central axis of mature citrus fruit, dividing the edible pulp into parts seeded or seedless.
5. A continuous endocarp membrane surrounds each segment.
6. Juice is held in closely packed, club-shaped multicellular sacs, also known as juice sacs, in the segments.
7. Hesperidium's juicy hairs are the component that can be eaten. The edible component of the ovary, namely the juice hairs, is surrounded by the ovary wall, providing a protective structure in hesperidium.
8. The fruit arises from syncarpous, multicarpellary, multilocular, superior ovary having seeds in axile placentation.
9. Examples of hesperidium fruits are lemons, oranges, grapefruit, etc.