5.Morphology of Flowering Plants
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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

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