Q38 / 200 · NEET 2006 · Botany

Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from:

  • A
    a multilocular monocarpellary flower
  • B
    a unilocular polycarpellary flower
  • C
    a multipistillate syncarpous flower
  • Correct answer
    D
    a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis

Solution

The fruit of Ananas comosus (pineapple or ananas) is sorosis, (a type of multiple fruits), developing from spike, spadix or catkin. In this type, the flowers associate by their succulent petals, the axis bearing them grows and becomes fleshy or woody, thus, the whole inflorescence turns into a compact fruit. Here, the whole inflorescence turns into a compact fruit.

Hence, the correct answer is option: 'D'.

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