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Multiple fruits are fruits that are formed from a cluster of flowers (called an inflorescence
Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches....
) growing on a catkin
Catkin

A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster, with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollination but sometimes insect pollinated ....
. Each flower on the catkin produces a fruit (drupelet), but these mature into a single mass. Examples are the 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....
, edible fig
FIG

FIG may refer to:* F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique* International Federation of Surveyors...
, mulberry
Mulberry

Morus or Mulberry is a genus of 10?16 species of deciduous trees native to warm, temperate, and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, with the majority of the species native to Asia....
, osage-orange
Osage-orange

Osage-orange, Horse-apple or Bois D'Arc is Plant sexuality plant species, with male and female flowers on different plants. It is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to tall....
, and breadfruit
Breadfruit

Breadfruit is a species of Flowering plant tree in the Morus family, Moraceae, that is native to the Malay Peninsula and western Pacific Ocean islands....
.

In the photograph on the left, stages of flowering and fruit development in the noni
Noni

Morinda citrifolia, commonly known as great morinda, Indian mulberry, Mengkudu , beach mulberry, Tahitian noni, cheese fruit or noni is a tree in the Coffea family, Rubiaceae....
 or Indian mulberry (Morinda citrifolia) can be observed on a single branch.






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Multiple fruits are fruits that are formed from a cluster of flowers (called an inflorescence
Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches....
) growing on a catkin
Catkin

A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster, with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollination but sometimes insect pollinated ....
. Each flower on the catkin produces a fruit (drupelet), but these mature into a single mass. Examples are the 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....
, edible fig
FIG

FIG may refer to:* F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique* International Federation of Surveyors...
, mulberry
Mulberry

Morus or Mulberry is a genus of 10?16 species of deciduous trees native to warm, temperate, and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, with the majority of the species native to Asia....
, osage-orange
Osage-orange

Osage-orange, Horse-apple or Bois D'Arc is Plant sexuality plant species, with male and female flowers on different plants. It is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, typically growing to tall....
, and breadfruit
Breadfruit

Breadfruit is a species of Flowering plant tree in the Morus family, Moraceae, that is native to the Malay Peninsula and western Pacific Ocean islands....
.

Noni Fruit Dev
In the photograph on the left, stages of flowering and fruit development in the noni
Noni

Morinda citrifolia, commonly known as great morinda, Indian mulberry, Mengkudu , beach mulberry, Tahitian noni, cheese fruit or noni is a tree in the Coffea family, Rubiaceae....
 or Indian mulberry (Morinda citrifolia) can be observed on a single branch. First an inflorescence of white flowers called a head is produced. After fertilization, each flower develops into a drupe, and as the drupes expand, they become connate (merge) into a multiple fleshy fruit called a syncarpet.

There are also many dry multiple fruits, e.g.
  • Tuliptree, multiple of samaras.
  • Sweet gum, multiple of capsules.
  • Sycamore
    Sycamore

    Sycamore is a name which is applied at various times and places to three very different types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms.* Ficus sycomorus, the sycamore of the Bible; a species of fig, also called the "sycamore fig" or "fig-mulberry", native to the Middle East and eastern Africa...
     and teasel, multiple of achenes.
  • Magnolia
    Magnolia

    Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subclass Magnolioideae of the Family Magnoliaceae.The natural range of Magnolia species is a disjunct distribution, with a main center in east and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species i...
    , multiple of follicles.
  • Common 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....


See also

  • Fruits
  • Compound fruit
    Compound fruit

    A compound fruit is one that develops from several ovary in either a single flower or multiple flowers. Conversely, a simple fruit develops from one ovary....