Question
Biology Question on morphology of flowering plants
How many plants in the list give below have composite fruits that develop from an inflorescence Walnut, poppy, radish, fig, pineapple, apple, tomato, mulberry
A
Four
B
Five
C
Two
D
Three
Answer
Three
Explanation
Solution
A composite or multiple fruit is a group of fruitlets which develop from the different flowers of an inflorescence. It is of two main types, sorosis (e.g., mulberry, pineapple, jack fruit) and syconus (e.g., peepal, banyan, fig, etc.)