(1) No mature fruits had more than two seedless carpels .(2) In the center of a typical flower are the carpels , modified leaves which enclose the ovules.(3) Unisexual flowers with three white petals produce numerous stamens or carpels and both present floral nectar.(4) The terminal female flowers consist of two or three carpels and no other organs.(5) Moreover, newer technologies for peeling and sectioning grapefruit yield whole segments, with carpellary membranes largely intact.(6) Ovules from self-pollinated carpels appear to degenerate early in development.
