Fruits Flashcards
It is the fertilized and ripened ovary of a plant.
Fruits
It is known as fruit wall
Pericarp
The outermost layer of the fruit
Epicarp or Exocarp
The middle layer of the fruit
Mesocarp
The innermost layer of fruit
Endocarp
The ripened ovule;product of sexual production
Seeds
Function of fruit
Protection of seed
Seed dispersal
The pericarp or fruit wall is made up of ?
Epicarp
Mesocarp
Endocarp
It is a fruit developed only from the ovary:
True fruit
Mangifera indica and Coco’s nucifera are examples of what fruit?
True fruit
Fruits that eveloped from other parts other parts of flower like thalamus, inflorescence, calyx are modified tl form a part of fruit.
Malus pumila, Fragaria ananassa
It is also known as chamber
Locule
Develop from multiple carpel apocarpous of ovary. Each carpwl forms a fruitlet.
Aggregate fruits
develop from superior or inferior syncarpous (fused ovaries) gynoecium.
Fleshy Fruit
mono or multiple carpel with syncarpous ovary
•Drupe fruit (stony fruits)
Other term if drupe fruit
Stony fruit