Question
Biology Question on morphology of flowering plants
Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from-
A
a unilocular polycarpellary flower
B
a Multipistillate syncarpous flower
C
a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis
D
a Multilocular monocarpellary flower
Answer
a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis
Explanation
Solution
Pineapple is a sorosis type of fruit that develops from spike or spadix inflorescence. Here the flowers frise by their succulent tepals and axis bearing the flowers becomes fleshy or woody, thus forming a compact mass. These are composite or multiple fruits. In pineapple fleshy axis, bracts, fused perianth and pericarp are edible.