Accessory fruit

Accessory Fruit

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Accessory fruit

An accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit, or pseudocarp is a fruit

Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
in which some or all of the flesh is derived not from the ovary

Ovary (plants)

In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or gynoecium. Specifically, it is the part of the carpel which holds the ovule and is located above or below or at the point of connection with the base of the petals and sepals....
but from some adjacent tissue. Some examples include cashew

Cashew

The cashew is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil. Its English language name derives from the Portuguese language name for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupi language name, acaj?....
s and pineapple

Pineapple

Pineapple is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to the southern part of Brazil, and Paraguay. This herbaceous plant perennial plant grows to tall with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves long, surrounding a thick plant stem....
s. A fig

Common Fig

The Common fig is a large, deciduous, shrub or small tree native to southwest Asia and the eastern Mediterranean region . It grows to a height of 3-10m tall, with smooth grey bark....
is a type of accessory fruit called a syconium

Syconium

A syconium is the type of fruit borne by figs , formed of an enlarged, fleshy, hollow receptacle with multiple Ovary_ on the inside surface. In essence, it is really a fleshy stem with a number of flowers, so it is considered both a Multiple_fruit and Accessory_fruit fruit....
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