Carefully examine the fruit material provided.  On a separate piece of paper, list the fruits on display, paying special attention to their morphology, structure, family and scientific name, and geographic origin.  During the exercise, answer the following questions for each fruit observed. 

 1.  What is the fruit type?
 2.  How many carpels are present?
 3.  Think about the different fruit types and how they might be dispersed in nature.

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LOCAL NAME	GENUS	SPECIES	FAMILY	CLASS	FRUIT TYPE	Carpel#	ORIGIN
Almond
Apple  Fuji  Granny  Smith   Pacific Rose   Pink Lady Red Delicious
Avocado  California   Florida
Banana  red and lady fingers bananas plantain
Blueberry
Brazil Nut
Chayote
Cherimoya
Cherry		(sweet) (sour)
Chestnut
Coconut
Coffee
Cucumber
Date
Eggplant  Japanese eggplant
Fig
Filbert/ Hazelnut
Grape
Grapefruit
Green Bean
Kiwano/ Horned Melon
Kiwi Fruit
Lemon
Lime
Long squash
Macadamia Nut
Maize (corn)
Mango
Melon honeydew   cantaloupe/ muskmelon crenshaw melon		honeydew   "cantaloupe", muskmelon
Okra
Orange navel orange (seedless)   blood orange		sour orange sweet orange   blood orange tangerine, mandarin orange
Papaya
Passionfruit, Granadilla
Peach/Nectarine "regular" peach (L) and white-fleshed peach (R)   nectarine		peach   nectarine
Peanut
Pear
Pecan
Pepino "melon"
Pepper  green bell pepper bell peppers of all colors   hot, red, or chili Habanero, bonnet Poblano		bell, chili, red, cayenne     hot, red, red chili habanero, bonnet 'Poblano' type
Pineapple
Plum  "Pluot", plum-apricot hybrid sold as "Dinosaur Egg"
Prickly Pear/Tuna
Pummelo
Raspberry /Blackberry
Snow Pea /Sweet Pea
Squash/Pumpkin  turban squash  hubbard squash  buttercup squash acorn squash  white acorn spaghetti squash  cooked spaghetti squash  butternut squash  patty-pan squash baby squash tatuma and calabaza pumpkin  yellow Crookneck Zucchini		turban         hubbard       buttercup         acorn       white acorn         spaghetti                 butternut       pattypan          baby squashes          tatuma, calabaza pumpkin crookneck zucchini	Cucurbitaceae	Dicot	Pepo	3	Mexico/South America
Star Fruit/ Carambola
Strawberry
Sunflower
Tamarillo
Tamarind/ Tamarindo
Tomatillo/ Husk Tomato
Tomato  cross section of a 'Roma' type next to a salad type, "grape" tomatoes are very small
Walnut
Watermelon

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