In pressing and drying specimens, the hypanthium appears to shrink somewhat. |
The styles were then removed from each flower just above the point of emergence from the hypanthium and passed to the evaluator. |
The five petals, usually pink but occasionally white, five sepals, and three whorls of stamens are borne on the outer rim of the short tube, known as the hypanthium, that forms the base of the flower. |
The hypanthium is usually glabrous, with narrowly triangular sepals that are pubescent adaxially and are deciduous in fruit. |
I removed the anthers from a single flower on each marked branch before dehiscence and marked the base of the hypanthium with a spot of paint. |
The pome is unique to Maloideae and is a fleshy fruit in which the carpels are surrounded by an enlarged hypanthium. |