fructal

Even after the mild breath of spring has begun to kindle a light of blossoms on our boughs, in the gradual progression of our seasons, yet a long time must elapse ere summer’s warmer smile shall have ripened the flowers into fruit: while awaiting her slow coming, we are glad to avail ourselves occasionally of any fructal variety afforded by the produce of other lands, and thus the dessert can hardly fail sometimes to include a treasure from the East, which introduces us to a class of vegetation altogether different from our own.

1866, Mrs. [William] Bayle Bernard, “The Date”, in Our Common Fruits. A Descriptive Account of Those Ordinarily Cultivated Or Consumed in Great Britain., London: Frederick Warne and Co., […], page 94

A few potted individuals, on being transferred to the greenhouse, came into flower in December and January, but (after artificial pollination) differed insignificantly in floral, fructal, and seminal details from the characters listed by Brenan for C. obtusifolia.

1960, American Journal of Botany, volume 47, page 316, column 1

Since fructal characters are required for certain determination, exsiccatae lacking fruit but otherwise agreeing with this taxon will be indicated with an asterisk (*).

1964, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 12, page 98

Plunge, suddenize, ecstacize / Upon the pure honeys of language / Roll about and in, absorbing adjectives / That only a queen knew to bestow / We, her loyal servants / Implant the fructal message / Into all the hungry minds / Instill the experience in, / The growth from, / The love of / Wordzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

1992, Lisa Baumann, “To Bee or Not to Bee”, in Nancy Jones, editor, Voices from Within, University of North Texas Press, →ISBN, page 12

The study aimed to investigate the reproductive biology of the species with the objectives of (1) identifying floral visitors that are effective pollinators, (2) determining the variation in floral and fructal phenology within and between provenances, and (3) assessing the success of intra- and inter-provenance controlled crosses and the extent of selfing.

1996, Dale Ordway Evans, editor, International Workshop on the Genus Calliandra, Winrock International, page 42