“I know of no companies that provide pericarp scores. So have your seed tested by a professional laboratory.” A seed lot with a high warm-germination score but low cold and saturated-cold ...

According to botanists, a true berry is a fruit that develops from a single ovary of a flower and contains multiple seeds ...

II.-At maturity, these remain as seed coverings: (1) the external portion of the ovary wall, in varying proportion, forming the pericarp; (2) the inner integument persisting in a state of compression.