Relating to or describing fruits that develop from a blastocarp, the fruiting structure in certain plants that grows from bud tissues.
From Greek 'blastos' (bud) + 'karpos' (fruit), with '-ous' adjectival suffix. Describes plants whose fruit originates from budding tissue rather than typical flower development.
This term reveals how botanists discovered that different plants make fruits in completely different ways—some from petals and ovaries, others from buds—and they needed special words to describe each method!
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