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  • Botany

Geocarpy

A geocarpic plant is one that produces its fruit underground like the peanut.

The stem bearing the fruit curves and comes into contact with the soil, where the fruit is buried under the action of geotropism (attraction towards the ground).

Spigelia genuflexa is a geocarpic plant. ©  Alex Popovkin

Spigelia genuflexa is a geocarpic plant. © Alex Popovkin


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