Question

In your basket of fruits, you have mangoes, strawberries and pineapples. What kind of each fruit is represented botanically? Explain giving one reason for each.

Answer 1

Mango: Mangoes are juicy stone fruit (drupe). A drupe is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a single shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. The ripe fruit varies in size, shape, colour, sweetness, and eating quality.

Strawberries: The strawberry is an aggregate accessory fruit, meaning that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries but from the receptacle that holds the ovaries. Each seed on the outside of the fruit is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside it.

Pineapples: Multiple fruits, also called collective fruits, are fruiting bodies formed from a cluster of fruiting flowers, the inflorescence. The pineapple is a tropical plant with edible multiple fruits.