Question

Pineapple fruit is

• A. Multiple, synconus
• B. Multiple, sorosis
• C. Aggregate, etaerio of berries
• D. Aggregate, etaerio of achenes

Answer 1

The correct option is B Multiple, sorosis

The fruit in a pineapple develops from an intercalary spike type of inflorescence in which each polygonal area is an individual flower. This makes it a composite or multiple type of fruit. Since it does not develop from hypanthodium type of inflorescence, it is a sorosis and not a synconus type of fruit. Aggregate fruits donot develop from inflorescence but instead develop from polycarpellary apocarpous gynaecium.

So, the correct answer is 'Multiple, sorosis'.