Tag: Endocarp

According to botanists, the edible flesh inside an orange is technically known as the endocarp. This juicy segment, commonly referred to as pulp, is actually composed of thousands of tiny, individual juice-filled sacs known as juice vesicles.

Every fruit is a marvel of botanical engineering, developed from the flower's ovary to protect and disperse seeds. These reproductive structures are composed of several distinct parts, each with a specialized function, which together define what are the parts of a fruit.

Did you know that fruits like apples are botanically not true berries, but rather 'pomes' where the fleshy edible part comes from the flower's receptacle? To truly understand which layer of fruit is edible, one must first grasp the basic botanical structure, known as the pericarp.