Aggregate Fruit

An aggregate fruit, or etacrio, develops from a flower withnnumerous pistils. An example is the raspberry, whose simple fruits are termed drupelets because each is like a small drupe attached to the receptacle. In some bramble fruits (such as blackberry) the receptacle is elongated and part of the ripe fruit, making the blackberry an aggregate-accessory fruit. The strawberry is also an aggregate-accessorry fruit, only one in which the seeds are contained in achenes. In all these example, the fruit develops from a single flower with numerous pistils. Some kinds at aggregate fruits are called berries, yet in the botanical sense they are not.



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