Floral remnant

Floral remnant [ Botany ]	Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

A more or less distinct dried residue of a flowers calyx or corolla at the apex of some fruit.

A floral remnant in a fruit is a usually more or less visible small dry part, or remaining trace of the flower lodged against the fruit surface on the apex of the fruit, floral remnants can be persistent or deciduous, when deciduous as the fruit grows, the floral remnants splits and soon is sloughed off.
Floral remnants vary from a showy whole dry flower to a mere thin tip or scar, or thin membrane partially covering the newly-set fruit.

Usually floral remnants signifying a false fruit E.g.: the flower remnant at the base of a pome (the apple and pear fruits)
The fruit of many cacti (false berry) typically carries the old flower remnant on the top.
Fruit infection may also occur where an infected flower remnant is lodged against the fruit surface

Left: Dry floral remnants on the fruit of Hamatocactus setispinus

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