| It is a scandent shrub, and its purple-black drupes are likely dispersed by birds. |
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| The drupes are metallic blue that later turn blue-black to black and ripen in October. |
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| The multiple fruit consists of small drupes or achenes grouped together in a single unit, and is usually round or oval shaped. |
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| This appears to have given rise to both single-seeded drupes and multi-seeded pyrenes early in evolution, and to berries later in evolution. |
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| Fruiting plants are immediately recognizable by the unique bright blue color of their drupes, but sterile shrubs are very nondescript and easily overlooked. |
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| It is a shrub or small tree with simple, alternate, unlobed leaves, panicles of white flowers in the spring, and bright blue drupes in the late summer and early fall. |
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| The drupes are cooked briefly in hot water, both to clean them and to prepare them for drying. |
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| Pickled peppercorns, also green, are unripe drupes preserved in brine or vinegar. |
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| Fresh, unpreserved green pepper drupes, largely unknown in the West, are used in some Asian cuisines, particularly Thai cuisine. |
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| Orange pepper or red pepper usually consists of ripe red pepper drupes preserved in brine and vinegar. |
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| The various fruit types include loculicidal and septicidal capsules, berries, and drupes. |
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| The drupes dry in the sun or by machine for several days, during which the pepper around the seed shrinks and darkens into a thin, wrinkled black layer. |
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| Drupes and berries, the classic fleshy fruits, first appeared in the late Cretaceous or early Tertiary. |
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