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== Fruits and Seeds == | == Fruits and Seeds == | ||
Bromeliads form dry capsules or berries. The fruits often | Bromeliads form dry capsules or berries. The fruits often represent an essential criterion for classification. An exceptional position is thereby reserved to the pineapple. Her "fruit" consists actually of an edible composite of fruits (''Synkarpium''), wherein the individual fruit can hardly be distinguished. The berries stay closed even at the state of maturity. They are eaten by animals which excrete the seeds undigested and thus spread them widely. In contrast the capsules form winged seeds or parachute-like appendixes which are distributed by the wind. | ||