Neet Study Material - Fruits

fertilized and ripened ovary is called fruit and its consists of a pericarp and seed development fertilizer study of fruits is called pomology.

Three basic types of fruits are

True fruits or eucarps -

they develop from superior ovary containing functional seeds but no additional floral parts used with them example mango.

False fruits or pseudocarps -

they develop from inferior ovary additional flower parts are fused with pericarp , example Apple.

Parthenocarps -

fruits are developed without fertilization hands functional seeds are absent example banana.

Fruits are classified into three types -

Simple fruit

Aggregate fruit

Composite fruit

Simple fruit

fruit from the ovary of the single flower with or without accessory parts it is of two types

A. Dry fruit -
Its pericarp becomes dried at maturity it is of three types.

Capsular fruits B.achenial fruits C. Schizocarpic