Morphology of Flowering PlantsHard
Question
Pineappl (ananas) fruit develops from
Options
A.a multipstillate syncarpous flower
B.a cluster of compactly borne flwers on a common axis
C.a multilocular monocarpellary flower
D.a unilocular polycarpellary flower
Solution
The fruit of Ananas comous (pineapple or ananas) is sorosis, (a type of multiple fruits), developing from spike, spadix or catkin. In this type, the flowers associate by their succulent tepals, the axis bearing them grow and becomes fleshy or woody, thus, the whole inflorescence turns into a compact fruit.
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