Receptacle (botany)#Angiosperms
{{Short description|A cardinal organ part of lower plants}}
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In botany, the receptacle refers to vegetative tissues near the end of reproductive stems that are situated below or encase the reproductive organs.
Angiosperms
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In angiosperms, the receptacle or torus (an older term is thalamus, as in Thalamiflorae) is the thickened part of a stem (pedicel) from which the flower organs grow. In some accessory fruits, for example the pome and strawberry, the receptacle gives rise to the edible part of the fruit. The fruit of Rubus species is a cluster of drupelets on top of a conical receptacle. When a raspberry is picked, the receptacle separates from the fruit, but in blackberries, it remains attached to the fruit.{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529102117/http://www.uga.edu/fruit/rubus.html |date=2010-05-29 |title=Blackberry and Raspberry}} — {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529102117/http://www.uga.edu/fruit/rubus.html |date=2010-05-29 |title=Mark Rieger}}
In the daisy family (Compositae or Asteraceae), small individual flowers are arranged on a round or dome-like structure that is also called receptacle.
Algae and bryophyta
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In phycology, receptacles occur at the ends of branches of algae mainly in the brown algae or Heterokontophyta in the order Fucales. They are specialised structures which contain the reproductive organs called conceptacles.Fletcher, R.L. (1987). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 3, Part 1. Natural History Museum, London. {{ISBN|0-565-00992-3}} Receptacles also function as a structure that captures food.