fruit_fleshiness

Explore the data for this trait in the portal

• Label: Fruit fleshiness
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012517
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A fruit morphology trait [TO:0002629] which indicates whether a mature [PATO:0001701] fresh [EnvThes:21976] fruit [PO:0009001] is fleshy [PATO:0002351].;Binary variable, dividing entire, true fruits into 'dry' versus 'fleshy' based on whether their botanical fruit type is fleshy when mature and fresh.
• Additional comments: This trait explicitly refers to fruit fleshiness, not diaspore or seed fleshiness; diaspore fleshiness is a separate trait.
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  dry	Fruits are dry when mature and fresh.
  fleshy	Fruits are fleshy when mature and fresh.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012517) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 32,610 records. This includes:

• data for 21,402 species.
• data for 236 families.
• data from 16 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)