fleshy fruit: berry fruit [3]![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Fruit in which the seed is surrounded by two distinct layers: an exocarp and a fleshy mesocarp that is in direct contact with the seed.
section of a strawberry ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
The strawberry is a complex fruit, with achenes borne by the fleshy receptacle of the flower.
epicalyx ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
All the small green leaves under the calyx.
peduncle ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Part of the fruit that once attached it to the terminal offshoot of the twig or branch.
receptacle ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Enlarged portion of the flower’s peduncle; in the strawberry, it becomes fleshy and bears the achenes.
achene ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Each of the small dry fruits that cover the skin of the strawberry, each one containing a seed.
flesh ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Pulpy portion of the strawberry, formed as the flower’s receptacle develops.
calyx ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
All the flower’s sepals, which remain until the strawberry ripens.