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Q. The coconut water and the edible part of coconut are equivalent to

AIPMTAIPMT 2012Morphology of Flowering Plants

Solution:

Coconut fruit is a drupe. It has a membranous epicarp, fibrous mesocarp and stony endocarp. The endocarp encloses a single seed with brown testa that contains a small embryo and a white oily endosperm (edible part) with watery fluid called coconut water.