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Custard Apple is an aggregate fruit of


A

Berries

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B

Drupes

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C

Achenes

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D

Hypanthodium

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Solution

The correct option is A

Berries


The correct option is A.

Explanation for correct option:

  1. Aggregate fruits develop from a single flower whereas the flower possesses more than one ovary and the ovaries are joined together.
  2. Custard apple is made up by fusing individual berry-like pistils.
  3. Therefore, each fruitlet of custard apple is a berry.

Explanation for incorrect option:

Option B:

  1. Drupes are fibrous fleshy fruits that grow from a single ovary and therefore have a single seed.
  2. Custard apple develops from many ovaries and therefore possesses more than one seed.
  3. Custard apple is not an example of drupes.

Option C:

  1. Achenes are also one-seeded fruit derived from a single ovary.
  2. Custard apples grow from many ovaries and do have many seeds.
  3. Hence, custard apples are not achenes.

Option D:

  1. Hypanthodium refers to a type of inflorescence from which syconus fruits are derived.
  2. Syconus fruits are derived from the whole inflorescence whereas aggregate fruits are formed from the apocarpous ovary of a single flower.
  3. Custard apples derive from a single flower.
  4. Hence, it is an aggregate fruit.

Final answer: Custard Apple is an aggregate fruit of berries.


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