Morphoanatomy of Fruits Flashcards
Any structure that develops from a fertilized ovary and contains seeds of the plant
fruit
the ovary wall becomes the
pericarp
the thickened wall of the
fruit.
pericarp
the fruit develops from a single ovary or the fused ovaries of one flower
simple fruit
develops from several ovaries of
a single flower . Each carpel is separated from one another, therefore it forms a fruitlet.
aggregate
derived from several ovaries of several flowers or from the ovaries of a compact inflorescence.
multiple
used to refer to fruits containing only ovarian tissue
true fruit
a fruit in which some of the flesh is derived not from the floral ovary but from some adjacent tissue
exterior to the carpel
accessory fruit
when the pericarp is soft, juicy (pulpy) or succulent
fleshy
when the pericarp is dry or paper upon maturity
dry
types of simple fleshy fruit
drupe
berry
pepo
hespiridium
pome
fruits with a stony and inedible endocarp
drupes
fruit usually with a fleshy mesocarp and a single seed enclosed in a hard stony endocarp or pit
drupe
all 3 layers of pericarp are soft or fleshy
berry
fleshy fruit with thin skin has few to many seeds
true berries
a berry with hard exocarp
pepo