You will find that avocado is unlike any other fruit you have ever tasted.

The fruit is allowed to mature on the tree, but it is still firm at this point.

The fruit is then cooled to 42-degrees-F., a temperature at which it lapses into a sort of dormant state.

This cooling does not change the avocado in any way, it just delays the natural softening of the fruit until a grovelike temperature ( room temperature ) is restored.

Turn off at any one of the marked picnic areas ( gasoline companies have touring service bureaus that issue booklets on national parks to tell you where you have barbecue facilities ) and -- with soft drinks cooled from morning loading up, hamburger, buns, an array of relishes, and fresh fruit -- your lunch is 75% cheaper than at a restaurant, and 100% more fun.

`` The human ego being what it is '', I put in, `` science fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a thousand larger solar systems than ours must look like gigantic tube-nosed fruit bats.

The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor.

White pepper is the ground seed of the common black pepper fruit.

Today, by contrast it is a lively and colorful fruit, vegetable, and flower market.

In Buddhism, karma ( Pāli kamma ) is strictly distinguished from vipāka, meaning " fruit " or " result ".

Vanilla is obtained from the fruit of the orchid Vanilla planifolia.

The fruit is a capsule.

The fruit of the almond is a drupe, consisting of an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed or " nut " ( which is not a true nut ) inside.

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The fruit is a samara drawn out into a long wing with the seed in the middle.

For example, the Hindu deity of Ganesh is represented as having the head of the elephant, thereby symbolizing that the fruit of righteous worships is abundance

The term " wild type " allele is sometimes used to describe an allele that is thought to contribute to the typical phenotypic character as seen in " wild " populations of organisms, such as fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster ).

Originally based on the date used to calculate the age of fruit trees for tithing as mandated in Leviticus 19: 23 – 25, the holiday now is most often observed by planting trees, or raising money to plant trees.

The shelter provided by these two mountainous ridges has produced a " micro climate " which provides relatively mild temperatures for the region and, coupled with the fertile glacial sedimentary soils on the valley floor, the region is conducive to growing vegetable and fruit crops.

In between lies Strathmore, a derivation of the Gaelic for the Great Valley, which is a fertile agricultural area noted for the growing of potatoes, soft fruit and the raising of Angus cattle.

*" Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

The fruit is about 1 cm long, oblong-ovoid with a slender, ridged beak.

The fruit is a slender, dehiscent capsule long, which splits in two to release the numerous small black or dark brown seeds.

Tip-bearers on the other hand produce most of their fruit buds at the tips of slender shoots grown the previous summer, and include the apples Worcester Pearmain and Irish Peach, and the pears such as Jargonelle and Josephine de Malines.

The kinkajou's slender five-inch extrudable tongue helps the animal to obtain fruit and to lick nectar from flowers, so that it sometimes acts as a pollinator.

The fruit is an erect, slender, four-sided pod 4 to 5. 5 cm long, called a silique, green maturing pale grey-brown, containing two rows of small shiny black seeds which are released when the pod splits open.

The fruit is an oblong to oval flattened capsule containing numerous slender seeds.

The bird cherries are a subgenus of the genus Prunus, characterised by having deciduous leaves, flowers 12-30 together on slender racemes produced in late spring well after leaf emergence, and small, sour fruit usually only palatable to birds, hence the name.

The fruit is a woody, oblong, cone-like structure ( like all Magnolias ) 6. 5 – 12 cm long, covered in small, pod-like follicles each containing one or two red seeds that hang out from the cone by a slender thread when ripe.

* Nocturama with aardvark, tamandua, two-toed sloth, night monkey, armadillo, plains viscacha, Gambian pouched rat, senegal galago, slender loris, Lesser Mouse-deer, rakali and Egyptian fruit bat

The fruit of the Catclaw Brier is a long, slender, rounded pod that has a covering of dense prickles, typically about 3-7 cm ( 1. 2-2. 8 in ) long.

The fruit is a long slender pod about 10 to 15 centimeters ( 4-6 in ) long.

The fruit is a long, slender capsule containing 10-20 or more seeds.

flexuosus, is a type of long, slender fruit which tastes like a cucumber and looks somewhat like a cucumber inside.

The flowers are catkins, the male catkins very slender, 8-15 cm long, the female catkins small, maturing into a woody cone-like fruit 2-3 cm long containing numerous small winged seeds.

This exhibit includes fruit bats, slender loris, slow loris, civets, leopard cats, hedgehogs, barn owls, mottled wood owls, fishing owls, and great horned owls.

Palm oil is an edible plant oil and is derived from the mesocarp ( reddish pulp ) of the fruit of the oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis ).

The edible fruit is a berry and is between a lemon and a grapefruit in size, 5 – 12 cm in diameter with a rounded hexagonal shape, and has thick reddish skin.

The fruit is a small round blue-black drupe, 8 – 16 mm long on a reddish stem ; it is thick skinned, sweet and rather juicy, and edible.

The ovary is inferior and the fruit is a small ( 5 – 25 mm ) dark reddish green, deep red, or deep purple, edible berry, containing numerous very small seeds.

The palm fruit is reddish, about the size of a large plum, and grows in large bunches.

The reddish to blue, rough-surfaced, hairy, nearly spherical fruit is in diameter.

The male flowers are dangling reddish catkins 10 – 15 cm long in early spring, and female flowers are erect catkins which develop into small, woody, superficially cone-like oval dry fruit 2 – 3 cm long.

The ripe fruit is a striking reddish orange color.

The tree has reddish cone shaped fruit, is shade-tolerant, has shallow spreading roots, and is pollinated by beetles.

It has a dark-tea colour with a reddish tint, and tastes subtly of spice and citrus fruit.

With thin skin and deep vertical lobes, the fruit of G. cambogia and related species range from about the size of an orange to that of a grapefruit ; G. cambogia looks more like a small yellowish, greenish or sometimes reddish pumpkin.

Pollinated flowers develop into a hairy reddish fruit about 2-2. 5 cm in diameter.