Samara (fruit)

As Samara or winged samara -seeded fruits are called nuts. The wing is a flat, more or less membranous border of the fruit that develops from the fruit wall and serves as a flight organ. They occur in birch, ash and elm, for example.

The term Samara was already used by Pliny for the fruit of the elm. Joseph Gardener introduced the term in 1788 in his De fructibus et seminibus plantarum in the botany of the modern age a.