Question

Jack fruit is a multiple fruit formed from

• A. Single ripened ovary
• B. Inflorescence
• C. Flower with many free carpels
• D. Flower with many partially fused carpels

Answer 1

The correct option is B Inflorescence

Multiple fruits develop from complete inflorescence which in jack fruits case is spadix and it is thus called a sorosis type of fruit.

Flowers with many free carpels are apocarpous as seen in aggregate fruits.

Single ripened ovary leads to formation of a simple fruit.

Fused carpels are called syncarpous.

The correct answer is 'Inflorescence'.