fruit-characters

Updated: May 10, 2025

Hence the outer parts pertain to the parent plant and only the innermost ones to the seedling and therefore to the following generation. Fruit-characters thus do not offer the qualities we need, only the qualities resulting from fertilizations are characteristic of the new generation. Such attributes are afforded in some cases by the color, in others by the chemical constitution.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation