achene
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Carl Linnaeus was not kidding when he chose the name Ambrosia for it: achene, its nutritious fruit, provides lots of calories to wildlife.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 9, 2011
Flowers very small, on shorter pedicels; achene very dull and roughish, the sides sulcate.—An occasional escape from cultivation.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Ovary with a solitary erect ovule, becoming an achene.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Ovary with a single cell and ovule, tipped with a long laterally stigmatic style, maturing as an achene.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Like the last; spikelets usually narrowly cylindrical and acute or acutish, 2–8´´ long; achene broad and truncate, the tubercle covering the summit; bristles not exceeding the achene.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
