Question

Aggregate fruit is formed from

• A. multicarpellary apocarpous ovary
• B. multicarpellary syncarpous ovary
• C. monocarpellary apocarpous ovary
• D. monocarpellary syncarpous ovary

Answer 1

The correct option is A

multicarpellary apocarpous ovary

Flowers with polycarpellary and apocarpous gynoecium give rise to a number of fruitlets as there are a number of free ovaries, each giving rise to one fruitlet. Sometimes, these fruitlets coalesce together appearing to be a single fruit but in many other cases, the fruitlets remain free from one another forming etaerio of fruitlets.