ACCESSORYFRUIT

Accessory fruit

An accessory fruit is a fruit in which some of the flesh is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue exterior to the carpel. Examples of accessory tissue are the receptacle of strawberries, figs, or mulberries, and the calyx of Gaultheria procumbens or Syzygium jambos. Pomes, such as apples and pears, are also accessory fruits, with much of the fruit flesh derived from a hypanthium.

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accessory fruit

Noun

  1. A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue, as for instance, a strawberry.


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