The drupes hang on till frost, when they open more or less and usually allow the nut to drop out.
Fruit small, usually bright-colored drupes in clusters; ripe from August to October.
There were no children, and the Drupes kept no servant, but depended on the housekeeper to send them a maid when they required one, so that Mrs. Drupe found herself alone with her prostrate husband.
From the place where the turf was being cut to the roadside was at least a quarter of a mile, and how often that child had travelled that road that day I did not like to think.
We could see groups of people working in the bog here and there, and at last we came upon two men and two boys cutting turf close to the road.
Defn: One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.
Defn: The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species small trees, of the genus Zizyphus, especially the Z.
The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.
Various modifications of these indehiscent fruits are to be met with; thus, the blackberry is not really a berry, but a cluster of little drupesformed from a single pistil of many carpels.
The fruits are not really berries, but little, poisonousdrupes containing four one-seeded stones.
The little drupesare covered with an acid, oily substance, and have long been used by the Indians and Mexicans in the preparation of a lemonade-like drink.
The first dashing rain sends a flood down the gulches, the laurel drupes are carried along and are buried in mud wherever they can find a resting place.
The drupes are bright orange red and are usually smaller than the purple fruit of hackberry.
The large, dull red drupes ripen in July and August, and sometimes hang on the trees until late fall, allowing ample time for gathering them.
Cyme never radiant; drupes blue, or dark-purple or black at maturity.
Drupes black with a bloom, ripe in September, looking like frost grapes.
One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.
In the course of six or seven months, these coffee drupes develop into little red balls about the size of an ordinary cherry; but, instead of being round, they are somewhat ellipsoidal, having at the outer end a small umbilicus.
Unlike Coffea arabica, the ripened drupes do not fall from the trees, and so the picking can be delayed at the planter's convenience.
Some few drupes contain three, while others, at the outer ends of the branches, contain only one round bean, known as the peaberry.
The drupes are smaller than those of liberica; but are much thinner skinned, so that the coffee bean is actually not any smaller.
Drupes about as large as peas, smooth, more or less glossy, whitish; stone ridged; strongly resembling the fruit of R.
Column 4: Average Number of good Seeds per Drupe in all the Drupes during the two Seasons.
Column 3: Number of Drupes produced during the second season.
It is plain why the sugar-berry-tree or lotus holds its drupes all winter: it is in order that the birds may come and sow the seed.
These drupes adhere together, forming round or conical caps, which will drop from the receptacle when over-ripe.
Unlike the raspberry, the drupes cling to the receptacle, which falls off with them when mature, and forms the hard, disagreeable core when the berry is black, but often only half ripe.
When ripe the fruit has a fine red color and the drupes fall from the head.
It takes some time before all the drupes are shed, and in a grove of fruiting trees they can be found in all stages of maturity during the month of May.
The upper half of the drupes are free but close together.
The drupes ripen slowly and gradually; they are red in color when fully mature and possess a peculiar faint odor.
At maturity the drupes separate and the fruit falls apart.
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