Question

Name the type of the fruit and give example of a plant and describe few features of such fruits.

• A. This is the aggregate fruit of custard apple $\left(Annona\right)$
• B. Such fruits are formed by the ripening of polycarpellary apocarpous condition.
• C. Such fruits are also called etaerio of berries
• D. All of the above are correct.

Answer 1

The correct option is D All of the above are correct.

An aggregate fruit or etareio is a fruit that develops from the merger of several ovaries that were separate in a single flower. Fruitlets that are derived from a single flower are collectively called as etaerio. An aggregate fruit develops from the apocarpous ovary of a flower. The flower has multiple carpels which are not joined together and thus forms individual fruitlets on the same receptacle.