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Apricots Two Afghan workers harvest resin from scored green poppy pods in an opium poppy field, with mountains visible in the background. Legume fruit Seedless watermelon Silique fruit Brazil nut Close-up of a dry burdock bur seedpod with numerous spiky hooks radiating outward, used for seed dispersal. Close-up of a toucan with a large yellow and black bill holding a piece of fruit or nut in its beak, Amazon, Brazil. Waxwing Cluster of heart-shaped green leaves and pale bracts with small round fruits on an American linden (Tilia americana) tree.
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Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).
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Apricots
Ripening apricots on a tree. Apricots are single-seeded drupes.
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Afghanistan: opium poppies
Collecting resin from opium poppy capsules in a field in Afghanistan, 2008.
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Legume fruit
An open legume fruit of the common pea (Pisum sativum), showing the immature...
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Seedless watermelon
A seedless watermelon.
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Silique fruit
Siliquae of the narrowleaf bittercress (Cardamine impatiens).
sarefo
Brazil nut
Hard indehiscent fruits of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa). The...
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Spiny burdock
Burdock (Arctium species) fruit. 
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Toucan
Chestnut-mandibled, or Swainson's, toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii) consuming...
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Waxwing
Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) eating fruit.
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Basswood
American basswood, also called American linden (Tilia americana). The light...
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Salsify
Cluster of plumed fruits on a salsify plant (Tragopogon porrifolius).
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Apples ripening on a tree.
© Corbis
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