Accessory fruit

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An accessory fruit, false fruit, spurious fruit, or pseudocarp is a fruit in which some or all of the flesh is derived not from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue. Some examples include cashews^[1] and pineapples^[2]. A fig is a type of accessory fruit called a syconium. Pomes, such as apples and pears, are also accessory fruits, with the core being the true fruit.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ "Brazil Nut, Paradise Nut and Cashew" [1]
2. ^ "Sugar Cane, Pineapple, Coffee and Morinda" [2]
3. ^ Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary entries for syconium, accessory fruit, core, and strawberry, Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2006

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