This is the era of bizarro fruit: Unusual colors are “a clear trend in the produce section,” Courtney Weber, a professor of plant breeding at Cornell University, told me.

A fruit is a matured and ripened ovary of a plant, which is why it contains seeds for plant reproduction. Seeds are dispersed in a variety of ways. ... A cross-section of a seed.

Drosophila or fruit fly larvae have a remarkable escape strategy—they roll away from danger. ... rotating around their body's cross-section. Inspired by this mechanism, ...

New tropical fruit to go on sale in the UK is cross between mango and plum; The Bouea macrophylla – or mango plum - has been nicknamed the plango; ...