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5.Morphology of Flowering Plants
normal
Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from
A
a multilocular monocarpellary flower
B
a unilocular polycarpellary flower
C
a multipistillate syncarpous flower
D
a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis.
(AIPMT-2006)
Solution
(d) : Pineapple is a sorosis type of fruit that develops from spike or spadix inflorescence. Here the flowers fuse 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.
Standard 11
Biology