Fruit Identification Quiz #3

Fruit Identification Quiz #3

Short Answer Questions



1. What is the scientific binomial of the plant that produced this bizarre dried fruit (seed capsule)? It is a tropical strangler tree with Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM photosynthesis).
2. What is another name for this fruit before it has dried and split open (i.e. when it is fleshy and very sticky)? [2 words--use small case letters.]
3. Another common name for this tree that comes from people writing on the leaves. Their names are permanently etched in the leaf epidermis. [2 words.]
4. Although it grows throughout tropical regions of the world, where is this tree native? Give a region of tropical islands. [Use small case.]