Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from
Correct answer: D. A cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis.
- A. A multilocular monocarpellary flower
- B. A unilocular polycarpellary flower
- C. A multipistillate syncarpous flower
- D. A cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis.
Explanation
(d) : Pineapple is a sorosis type of fruit that develops from spike or spadix inflorescence. Here the flowers fuse by their succulent tepals and axis bearing the flowers becomes fleshy or woody, thus forming a compact mass. These are composite or multiple fruits. In pineapple fleshy axis, bracts, fused perianth and pericarp are edible.
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