aril

The membranous aril contains outer epidermis, inner epidermis and multiple layers of parenchymatous cells between them.

The fruits are edible; the pulpy, yellow aril is somewhat acid with an agreeable taste. The wood is used for furniture and cabinetwork .

The edible, fleshy, ripe aril of this tree, especially popular as a food in Jamaica. The seeds and unripe arils are poisonous.

testa leathery, seeds fully covered by an aril and adnate to testa; embryo curved.

aril red or purple, fleshy, enclosing at least base of seeds.

The fruits are edible; the aril is sweet to acid and eaten raw, cooked, or preserved. The bark is rich in tannins and is used in dyeing.

Eating quality of shrivelled seed fruits were superior to normal-seed fruits in smaller seed size and higher aril ratio.

Seeds several, pale brown when dry, ovoid, ca. 5 mm, enveloped by a thin, fleshy, partly fimbriate, pale yellowish aril.

Seeds black, many angled, base covered with white aril.

Leaf blade veins regular in dense nets, petiole bent, enlarged; aril dry, white or brown.

Seeds ellipsoid, dark brown, partly covered by orange aril. Fl. unknown, fr. Oct.

Seeds dark brown, angled, with aril drying as a pale brown wing.

Capsule brown or fulvous, rough with minute tubercles; aril yellow.

Seeds ca. 8, when dry pale yellowish brown, ca. 5 mm, smooth, enveloped in a thin, fleshy, pale yellow partly fimbriate aril.

Seeds many per locule, enveloped by a black smooth aril.

Seeds with pitted testa, black at maturity, enclosed in fleshy aril.

Seeds ellipsoid, dark brown, partly covered by orange-red aril.

Aril pale green or slightly white powdery, with small apical mucro.

Seeds ovoid, dark brown, partially covered by orange aril.

Seed black when dry, with a white aril.

seeds several, pale brown when dry, 4-5 mm, enveloped by a thin, fleshy, partly fimbriate, pale yellowish aril.

aril fleshy or membranous, apex laciniate.

aril yellow, fringed, enclosing base of seeds.

Seeds numerous; aril lacerate.

Seeds subglobose, dark brown, partially covered by orange aril.

Seed 1 per fruit, with a yellowish fleshy aril.

Seeds subglobose, dark brown or black, partially covered by orange aril.

aril red, nearly covering seed.

aril basal to enveloping seed.

Seeds dark brown, with small aril.

Capsule red when fresh, brown when dry, nearly globose, ca. 10 mm in diam. , densely prickly, prickles 1-2 mm. Aril bright orange.

Seeds black; aril cushionlike.

Seeds with or without aril and wings.

Seeds obovate, ca. 5 mm, red-brown, covered by orange aril at base.

caruncle and aril absent.

aril carnose, red to orange-red.

Aril bright orange.

basal aril thin and small.

aril yellow when dry.

Seeds (2 or)3 per fruit, enveloped by a red aril. Fl.

aril basal, white, 2-lobed.

Capsule brown or brown-yellow, 8-10 mm in diam. Aril red.

Seeds ellipsoid, 3-4 mm in diam. , black-brown, basally covered by aril.

Seeds ellipsoid, 3-4 mm in diam. , basally covered by white aril.

aril thin.

Seeds oblong, 5-7 mm, basally covered by white aril.

Leaf blade 2. 5-4. 5 cm; aril of seed obovoid-conical, apex rounded, cuspidate.

Changes in Cell Wall Components and Cell Wall-degrading Enzyme Activities of Postharvest Longan Fruit during Aril Breakdown

Analysis of fruit sugar and acid compositions in the aril of different longan cultivars

Seeds usually surrounded by a colloidal and fleshy aril;

Seeds subglobose, usually covered by waxy aril;

testa hard, without waxy aril;

Study on developmental process of aril in seedless-litch

Seeds 1 or 2 per locule, enclosed in a thin white leathery aril;