The outer thin and leathery part of a fruit.
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Fruits contain seeds and a number of protective outer layers that can collectively be known as the pericap. In many fruits, the pericarp may include a hard shell surrounding the seeds commonly known as the pit, a large fleshy section, and a thinner outer layer of skin.
Types of fruit
Drupe - has fleshy fruit and a single seed with a hard endocarp eg peaches, coconut and olives.
Berry - has many seeds eg tomatoes, peppers and cucumber but not strawberries!
Aggregate fruit - develop from one flower with many pistils eg strawberries.
Legumes - split along two sides eg beans, peas.
The seeds of water lily plant have a spongy outer coat which allows them to float in water and move to other places along with water currents. The coconut fruits have a fibrous outer coat which enables them to float in water and carried away by flowing water to far off places.
