1. FRUITS Fruits can be divided into three categories: 1. Simple fruit
- a fruit formed from a single ovary of a single flower (monocarpous or syncarpous ovary)
2. Aggregate fruit
- a fruit formed from several ovaries of a single flower (apocarpous) e.g. Anona
3. Multiple fruit
- a fruit formed from the ovaries of flowers borne in a compact inflorescence. The fruits unite at maturity e.g. jackfruit, pineapple

2. Simple fruits Dry indehiscent fruits Dry dehiscent fruits
Succulent/Fleshy fruits
A fruit : - pericarp + the seed (inside)
- is a ripened ovary/ovaries generally
containing one to many seeds inside
Pericarp : exocarp/epicarp + mesocarp + endocarp
** Following pollination and fertilization in a flower, the ovule develops into a seed while the ovary wall forms the fruit pericarp

3. 1. Simple Fruits A. Dry indehiscent fruits Cypsela Samara Achene Nut
pericarp
seed
Nut
Achene
Cypsela
Samara
A. Dry indehiscent fruits

4. coleoptile
plumule
coleorrhiza
radicle
endosperm
Caryopsis

5. Schizocarp

6. Loment/Lomentum
B. Dry dehiscent fruits
Follicle
Siliqua
Legume/Pod

7. (i) Capsule (Septicidal) (ii) Capsule (Loculicidal)
(iv-a) Capsule (Circumscissle)
(iii) Capsule (Poricidal)
(iv-b) Capsule (Operculate)
(Pyxis)
(Poricidal)

8. Rubber – Capsule septicidal

9. Durian – Capsule loculicidal

10. C. Succulent/Fleshy fruits
epicarp
mesocarp
endocarp
Berry
Drupe
C. Succulent/Fleshy fruits

11. Pome Hesperidium Pepo endocarp epicarp outer limit of carpel mesocarp
remains of stamen, style and calyx
Pome
Hesperidium
Pepo
seed
tough (originated from the receptacle)

12. 2. Aggregate Fruit Strawberry calyx pedicel pits/seeds
fleshy receptacle
Strawberry
(achene)

13. pedicel
fruitlet
seed
Anona

14. 3. Multiple Fruits Pineapple (sorosis) remains of a flower bract
fruit axis
remains of a flower
Pineapple (sorosis)
peduncle

15. thickened stigma remains
true fruit
pericarp
seed
perianth
thickened stigma remains
fruit axis
thickened stigma remains
Jackfruit