Fruit

• Fruit

  • Mature or ripened ovary
  • Other parts form part of the fruit (Receptacle, Calyx, Funiculus)
  • Function: Hold and protect the seed until maturity
  • Pericarp - fruit wall; contains the seeds

  Types:

  • Exocarp - outermost layer
  • Mesocarp - middle layer
  • Endocarp - innermost layer
• Fruit Classification

  According to number of flowers involved in their formation:

  • Simple fruit - develops from one ovary (beans, tomato, guava)
  • Aggregate fruit - develops from several ovaries from a single flower (atis, anonas, guyabano)
  • Multiple fruit - derived from several ovaries of several flowers (pineapple, nangka, rimas)

  According to structure, consistency, and dehiscence:

  • Fleshy - pericarp is soft, juicy/pulpy or succulent (tomato, banana, mango)
  • Dry - pericarp is dry or papery upon maturity (rice, narra, corn, ipil-ipil, kalachuchi)
• Fruit Classification

  A) achene

  B) grain/caryopsis

  C) utricle

  D) samara

  E) nut

  F) follicle

  G) legume

  H) silique

  I) silicle

  J) capsule

  K) loculicidal capsule

  L) septicidal capsule

  M) circumscissile capsule

  N) poricidal capsule

  
• Fruit Classification

  A) berry

  B) drupe

  C) pepo

  D) hesperidium

  E) pome

  F) achenecetum

  G) drupecetum

  H) follicetum

  
• Fruit Classification

  A) multiple fruit of achenes

  B) sorosis

  C) syconium

  D) bur