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This document discusses the different types of fruits. It divides fruits into two main categories: simple fruits which develop from a single ovary, and compound fruits which develop from multiple ovaries. Compound fruits are further divided into aggregate fruits, multiple or collective fruits, and accessory fruits. Fruits are also classified based on their texture and whether they dehisce or not. Fleshy fruits have soft, fleshy pericarps at maturity, while dry fruits have dry pericarps. Dry fruits can be dehiscent, splitting open to release seeds, like capsules, legumes, and siliques. Or they can be indehiscent and not split open, like achenes, acorns, nuts, and sam

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Fruits

This document discusses the different types of fruits. It divides fruits into two main categories: simple fruits which develop from a single ovary, and compound fruits which develop from multiple ovaries. Compound fruits are further divided into aggregate fruits, multiple or collective fruits, and accessory fruits. Fruits are also classified based on their texture and whether they dehisce or not. Fleshy fruits have soft, fleshy pericarps at maturity, while dry fruits have dry pericarps. Dry fruits can be dehiscent, splitting open to release seeds, like capsules, legumes, and siliques. Or they can be indehiscent and not split open, like achenes, acorns, nuts, and sam

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FRUITS

I.

TYPES OF FRUITS:
A. According to composition and origin:
a. Simple fruit - a fruit that results from the ripening of a single ovary.

b. Compound fruit - a fruit that results from the ripening of a single ovary.
TYPES OF COMPOUND FRUITS:
A fruit that
develops from
several ovaries
c.
that belong to a
single flower and
Aggregate
becomes crowded
fruit
into a mass. These
are joined
together by a
common
receptacle.

Multiple or
collective
fruit

A fruit that is
derived from the
ovaries of several
flowers that unite
into a mass.

Example : cone - a multiple fruit consisting of overlapping appressed


Scales, each scale bearing one or two seeds on its surface.
Accessory fruit - fruit that develops from other parts of the flower other than the ovary.

Example: pome - a fruit in which most part develops from the receptacle.
B. According to texture and dehiscence:
a. Fleshy fruits - a general term to refer to fruits where all or most of the pericarp is
soft and fleshy at maturity.

berry

A fruit where the


entire pericarp
become fleshy

hesperidium

A berry with a
leathery rind

pepo

A unilocular berry
with a hard rind that
develops from an
inferior ovary,

drupe or
stone fruit

A type of fruit where


the exocarp is thin,
the mesocarp is
thick and fleshy,
and the endocarp is
hard and stony.

b. Dry Fruits - fruits in which the entire pericarp becomes dry often brittle or hard at
maturity.
DEHISCENT DRY FRUITS - fruits that split open along definite points at maturity
thus releasing the seeds.

capsule

A fruit that is derived from


two or more united carpels
and splitting in various
ways.

legume or
pod

A dehiscent fruit derived


from a single carpel and
splits open along 2 seams
or sutures.

Follicle

silique

An elongated, two-locular
fruit with two parietal
placentae, and usually with
two valves separating from
the persistent placentae
and septum as in
Brassicaceae

INDEHISCENT DRY FRUITS - dry fruits that do not split open along definite
sutures at maturity. These fruits usually contain one or two seeds.

achene

A small, unilocular, one-seeded


fruit, the seed is attached to the
ovary wall at a single point.

acorn

The hard, dry indehiscent fruit


of oaks having a single, large
Seed and a cup-like base.

bur

A fruit with often hooked or


barbed spines or appendages

caryop
sis or
grain

A seed-like fruit resembling an


achene but having the seed
coat firmly united with the
ovary wall.

nut

A one-seeded fruit that


resembles an achene, but
larger. It has long shell, with
much-thickened, hard pericarp

samara

A winged achene.

schizoc
arp

A dry fruit that splits along oneseeded camels or parts.

utricle

A one-seeded fruit with a thin,


bladdery and inflated wall. This
type of fruit is characteristic of
amaranthaceae.

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