Question

Pineapple fruit develops from

• A. a multilocular, monocarpellary flower
  
• B. a unilocular, polycarpellary flower
• C. a multipistillate syncarpous flower
• D. a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis

Answer 1

The correct option is D a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis

Pine apple is a sorosis type of fruit that develops from spike inflorescence. Here the flowers fuse by their succulent tepals and axis bearing the flowers becomes fleshy or woody, thus forming a compact mass. These are composite or multiple frutis.