Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Aggregate fruit

Aggregate means collection of small fruits. It is a fruit consisting of many individual small fruits derived from separate ovaries within a single flower, borne together on a common receptacle

http://www.fruitsinfo.com/aggregate-fruit.php
Examples:
  • Raspberries
  • Blackberries
  • Strawberries
  • Apples

(Apples are etaerio of drupes which is an aggregate fruit type.) 


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