Cloves Inflorescences and flowers
The fruits, called mother-of-cloves, are oblong fleshy drupes, usually shortly tapering at each end, reddish-purple in colour, 2.5-3.5 cm long and 1.2-1.5 cm in diameter. They are surmounted by the four enlarged fleshy calyx lobes. They usually contain only a single seed, but may be rarely two-seeded. There is a thin fleshy pericarp about 2-3 mm thick. The seed, with a purplish testa, is oblong and rounded at both ends, about 2 cm long, with two large cotyledons and no endosperm.
