Question

Which type of fruit is mango?

Answer 1

1. Mango fruit is a drupe.
2. Drupe is characterized by outer fleshy fruit (exocarp and mesocarp) surrounding a hardened endocarp with seed.
3. Drupes are fleshy fruits developing from either one or many fused carpels having one or several seeds.
4. They have a membranous epicarp, stony endocarp, fibrous mesocarp.
5. The edible part of coconut and the coconut water are equivalent to endosperm.
6. The endocarp wraps one seed with brown testa containing a small embryo and an edible part (white oily endosperm) with the liquid – coconut water, Mango.