Fruits are reddish, and about 6 8 mm across, splitting when ripe to reveal a hard, black seed held by a pseudo-aril or mericarp with four red fingers, resembling the clasps holding a jewel in a brooch or ring setting.
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The fruits of the shiso ( " shiso-no-mi " ), containing fine seed ( mericarp ) about 1 mm or less in diameter ( about the size of mustard seed ), can be preserved in salt and used as a spice or condiment.
