Herbaceous Plants and Berry

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Viola odorata is a species of the genus Viola native to Europe and Asia, but has also been introduced to North America and Australia. It is commonly known as wood violet, sweet violet, English violet, common violet, florist's violet, or garden violet. It is a hardy herbaceous flowering perennial. Mignonette is a common name for Reseda, a genus of fragrant herbaceous plants. Convallaria majalis, commonly known as the Lily of the Valley, is a sweetly scented (and highly poisonous) woodland flowering plant that is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in Asia, Europe and in the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States. The botanical definition of a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary. The berry is the most common type of fleshy fruit in which the entire ovary wall ripens into an edible pericarp. In everyday English, berry is a term for any small edible fruit. They are usually juicy, round or semi-oblong, brightly colored, sweet or sour, and do not have a stone or pit, but seeds may be present.

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