# Drupe

**Source**: https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/drupe
**Parent**: https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/

a [succulent](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/succulent "juicy; fleshy - applied either to fruits, leaves or stems;") [indehiscent](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/indehiscent "not opening at maturity.") [fruit](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/fruit "the seed bearing structure developed from the ovary of Magnoliopsida (Angiosperms) after fertilization.") derived from a single [carpel](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/carpel "a unit of the gynoecium in which one or more ovules are enclosed. It is usually divided into stigma, style, and ovary.") and having the [pericarp](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/pericarp "the wall of a fruit. developed from the ovary wall after fertilization.") differentiated into [epicarp](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/epicarp "the outermost layer of the pericarp; the skin.") (skin), soft [mesocarp](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/mesocarp "the middle layer, usually fleshy, of a 3-layered pericarp.") and stony [endocarp](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/endocarp "the innermost layer of a layered pericarp, identified only when it is stony.").

## Related terms

- [Drupaceous](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/drupaceous)
- [Drupel](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/drupel)
- [Succulent](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/succulent)

- [Drupe](https://eflora.sydney.edu.au/glossary/image/drupe "Transverse section of a drupe. Shading: seeds exposed by sectioning are shown in solid black.")