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Nov 17, 2011 2:59 PM CST
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Plant habit needs another option - tuber. I see some people put in bulb instead of tuber as they see bulb being the only option. Botanically (and visually) there's a big difference between bulb and tuber.
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Nov 17, 2011 3:09 PM CST
Name: Lynn
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I agree
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Nov 17, 2011 3:12 PM CST
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Would not corms be considered another plant habit? They are listed under propagation methods but not plant habit...
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Nov 17, 2011 8:08 PM CST
Name: Lin Vosbury
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I agree, Bulbs, Corms, Tubers, Rhizomes ... all different.
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Nov 19, 2011 6:04 PM CST
Name: Ann ~Heat zn 9, Sunset
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I agree Have had trouble with that myself. Need all of them.

And what does anyone think of nuts? Acorns, nuts. Fruit doesn't really seem appropriate to me for those things.
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Nov 19, 2011 7:02 PM CST
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That's an interesting one. Nuts are seeds, but not all seeds are nuts. What makes a seed a nut?
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Nov 19, 2011 7:04 PM CST
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They are the fruit of that plant.
Nuts or seeds. I'm all ears!
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Nov 19, 2011 7:11 PM CST
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Right, nuts are seeds. A pod containing seeds is a fruit.
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Nov 19, 2011 7:32 PM CST
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I know that's correct. It just seems so odd. We always think of them differently.
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Nov 19, 2011 7:51 PM CST
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"Nut:
1. (Science: botany) A dry one-seeded fruit which is indehiscent (i.e., it does not split open along a definite seam at maturity). Among the true nuts are the acorn, chestnut, hazelnut, beech, filbert, etc). Others that are not botanically true nuts are the peanut, cashew, coconut, litchi, pistachio, almond and the walnut."

That's as defined by Biology Online (http://www.biology-online.org/...)

Interesting that walnuts, almonds, and even coconuts aren't nuts. Confused
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I stand corrected. Smiling Still, I don't know how pedantic we really need to be here. I guess it can be up to the submitter of the photo to choose which gallery it goes in.
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That is odd for sure. Blinking
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Nov 19, 2011 8:06 PM CST
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A dry one-seeded fruit


Surely the nut is the seed within the 'fruit'? The fruit being the casing I imagine, but the description does say "one-seeded". That's not strictly true as chestnuts sometimes have more than one 'seed' within one casing, so do hazelnuts.

(edited to add 'one' in front of seed!)
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Nov 19, 2011 9:02 PM CST
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