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Morphology of Flowering Plants
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Composite fruit develops from

  • single ovary

  • inflorescence

  • apocaropous ovary

  • pericarp

Answer

B.

inflorescence

Composite fruits are those fruits which develop from the entire inflorescence rather than from single flower. These are basically of two types: Sorosis and Syconus.

Spike, spadix and catkin type of inflorescence gives rise to Sorosis type of fruit. eg, Ananas.

Syconus develops from a hypanthodium inflorescence. eg Ficus.

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