A genus of plants or a descriptive term for plants that produce fruit in two distinct manners or locations.
Scientific Latin genus name from Greek amphi- 'both' plus carpus 'fruit.' Functions both as a potential genus classification and as a descriptive term in botanical literature.
When botanists named amphicarpus plants, they were highlighting one of nature's strangest solutions to survival—these plants literally refuse to put all their reproductive eggs in one basket!
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