Fruit

Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain.

The ripened pericarp or pericarps with the adnate parts; the seed-bearing organ.^CH

There are three basic types of fruits:

1. Simple fruit
2. Aggregate fruit
3. Multiple fruit

Gallery

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  Venn diagram representing the relationship between botanical and culinary fruit and vegetables. Many culinary vegetables are botanical fruit.

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  An arrangement of fruits commonly thought of as vegetables, including tomatoes and various squash.

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  Dewberry flowers. Note the multiple pistils, each of which will produce a druplet. Each flower will become a blackberry-like aggregate fruit.

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  In some plants, such as this noni, flowers are produced regularly along the stem and it is possible to see together examples of flowering, fruit development, and fruit ripening

See also

• List of fruits
• Fruit trees

This article contains a definition from the Glossary of Gardening Terms.