Succulent or fleshy fruit having one seed enclosed in stony endocarp. (The pollination of cultivated plants: a compendium for practitioners, FAO, 2018)
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In some countries, apricots, cherries, peaches, nectarines and plums are reported under this general category.
A gland that makes substances such as sweat, tears, saliva, milk, and digestive juices, and releases them through a duct or opening to a body surface. (NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms, National Cancer Institute)
A meristem giving rise to secondary plant tissues, such as the vascular and cork cambia. (FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture, 2001)
The middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit. The mesocarp is often the delicious fleshy part of the fruit, such as the edible portion of an avocado or the juicy flesh of a peach. (Harris, J.G., Harris, M.W. (2001). Plant identification terminology: An illustrated glossary (2nd ed.). Spring Lake: Spring Lake Publishing. In: https://torontobotanicalgarden.ca/blog/word-of-the-week/botanical-nerd-word-mesocarp/)
Product or service used by agricultural production processes to achieve intended results. These can include soil amendments, seed or rootstocks, crop protection chemicals and fuel, as well as labour. (Adapted from ISO/TMB/SAG SF - Strategic Advisory Group on Smart Farming, Final Report – January 2023 https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/publications/en/2023_SAG-SF_Final_Report.pdf)
A layer of suberized cells produced outwardly by the cork cambium. (The New York Botanical Garden. Glossary
https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/glossary/glossary-details/?irn=1207)
A plant cuticle is a protecting film covering the epidermis of leaves, young shoots and other aerial plant organs without periderm. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_cuticle)
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Thin layer of cutin or waxy material on the external surface of plants
Managing a farm on a day to day basis. (Adapted from ISO/TMB/SAG SF - Strategic Advisory Group on Smart Farming. Final Report – January 2023 https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/publications/en/2023_SAG-SF_Final_Report.pdf)
Raceme: an inflorescence with stalked flowers arranged singly along an elongated axis, with the flowers at the bottom opening first (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Caudullo, G., De Rigo, D., Mauri, A. et al., European atlas of forest tree species, Caudullo, G.(editor), De Rigo, D.(editor), Mauri, A.(editor), Houston Durrant, T.(editor), San-Miguel-Ayanz, J.(editor), Publications Office of the European Union, 2016, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/776635)
Undifferentiated vegetative tissue found in some algae, fungi, liverworts and lichens which is characteristic of organisms formerly classified as thallophytes; a thallus usually names the entire plant body. (NALT https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/148062)
Country in South America. Official name Federative Republic of Brazil. (Adapted from Wikidata, 2026. Brazil (Q155). https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155)
Umbel: a flat-topped inflorescence in which the flowers arise from the same point in the main stem and have stalks of the same length, with the youngest flowers at the centre. (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Caudullo, G., De Rigo, D., Mauri, A. et al., European atlas of forest tree species, Caudullo, G.(editor), De Rigo, D.(editor), Mauri, A.(editor), Houston Durrant, T.(editor), San-Miguel-Ayanz, J.(editor), Publications Office of the European Union, 2016, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/776635)
Adansonia grandidieri, sometimes known as Grandidier's baobab, is the biggest and most famous of Madagascar's six species of baobabs. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adansonia_grandidieri)
