21. The hollowed out woody endocarps often remain around the base of the parent tree as they break down slowly. 22. The fruit itself is a large capsule in diameter, resembling a coconut endocarp in size and weighing up to. 23. The endocarp is the white part of the fruit containing a mild flavor that makes the fruit popular for eating. 24. The 1-seeded berries have often been mistaken for drupes whenever the seed coat was mistaken for an endocarp . 25. The epicarp is matted in irregular vertical rows of reflexed scales, with a thin mesocarp and an undifferentiated endocarp . 26. The endocarp forms a leathery or stony case around the seed, and corresponds to what is commonly called the core. 27. The edible endocarp of the mangosteen has the same shape and size as a tangerine in diameter, but is white. 28. Pome-type fruit with stony rather than leathery endocarp may be called a "'polypyrenous drupe " '. 29. Once pollinated, the florets develop into achenes or drupes, in which the seeds are enclosed by a layer of endocarp . 30. Within the aril of the drupe is a ten ribbed bony endocarp , each of the ten cells within contains a seed.
