1. Fruit types

3. Achene Small, indehiscent dry
Thin, close-fitting wall surrounding a single seed.

4. Capsule From syncarpous ovary Several to many seeded.
Most common and most variable dehiscent fruits

5. Follicle Derived from a single carpel Opening along one suture.
A unicarpellar capsule.

6. More capsules

7. Legume
Derived from a single carpel
Opening along two sutures.

8. Nut
Hard exocarp
Single seed
Often with surrounding involucre parts

9. Samara
Winged, indehiscent
Derived from a 2- to many-carpellate ovary.

10. Schizocarp Dry fruit Derived from a 2-many carpellate ovary
Splits into 1-many seeded segments, each corresponding to a carpel.

11. Silique
2-carpellate capsule whose outer walls break away from a central papery partition.

12. Berry Entire pericarp soft Usually with 2 or more seeds.
Derived from superior or inferior ovary.

13. Drupe Pericarp in three layers Leathery outer exocarp Fleshy mesocarp
Stone is endocarp.

14. Simple fruits vs aggregate fruits

15. Multiple fruits