EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -A fruit that has developed from more than one flower, in which the flowers are tightly clustered, and mature into a tight cluster of individual fruits (such as mulberry, pineapple, fig, osage orange). This differs from an aggregate fruit which derives a single flower.

Detailed explanation-2: -Examples are the fig, pineapple, mulberry, osage-orange, and jackfruit.

Detailed explanation-3: -Multiple fruits consist of the gynoecia of more than one flower and represent a whole inflorescence, such as the fig and pineapple.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pineapple is a type of composite fruit, which means it has developed from many ovaries and other floral parts. Pineapple is a type of sorosis fruit that is developed of catkins, spikes, or spadix-type inflorescences.

Detailed explanation-5: -Multiple fruits are also called composite fruit. Etaerio of fruits and aggregate fruit are synonyms. An aggregate fruit or etaerio is a fruit that develops from the merger of several ovaries that were separate in a single flower. Simple succulent fruits are also called fleshy fruits.