Question
Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from
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a unilocular polycarpellary flower
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a multipistillate syncarpous flower
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a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis
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a multilocular monocarpellary flower
Solution
C.
a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis
The fruit of Ananas comosus (pineapple or ananas) is sorosis, (a type of multiple fruits), developing from spike, spadix or catkin. In this type, the flowers associate by their succulent tepals, the axis bearing them grows and becomes fleshy or woody, thus, the whole inflorescence turns into a compact fruit.
