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Detailed Explanation of Drupe Planting Techniques and Management Methods

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A drupe is a fruit formed from a single-carpel pistil and a superior ovary, and can also be formed from a syncarpous pistil or an inferior ovary. Its exocarp is thin, its mesocarp is fleshy, and its endocarp is hard and woody, forming a hard stone, with each stone containing 1 seed, such as peach, apricot, walnut, and so on. Some drupes resemble berries and are called berry-like drupes, such as ginseng and Panax notoginseng.

A drupe is one type of fruit and belongs to the simple fruits; it is a fleshy fruit developed from one carpel; generally the endocarp becomes lignified to form the stone; it is commonly found in plant groups such as Rosaceae and Rhamnaceae.


Drupes are distributed across an extremely wide range, covering almost all of China. Most drupe fruit trees have relatively strong cold resistance, but they are all warmth-loving tree species, and apart from extremely cold or overly warm regions, they can generally be cultivated.


Characteristics of drupes


In a typical drupe, the exocarp is membranous and is called the peel; the mesocarp is fleshy and is called the flesh; the endocarp is composed of stone cells,
is hard, and is called the stone, within which are the seeds.
1. The fruit has a groove and is covered externally with hairs or a waxy bloom.
2. Lateral buds.
3. On both sides are flower buds, with a terminal bud; flowers are solitary, pink, with very short pedicels; the ovary and fruit are often pubescent, very rarely hairless; the stone often has pits, very rarely smooth; the leaves are conduplicate, elliptic-lanceolate, and the petiole has glands; the flowers open before the leaves.


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