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Agriculture · Q969

Horticulture

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 969

Q969

Botanically pineapple fruit is

A.
Sorosis
Answer
B.
Berry
C.
Pome
D.
None of these

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Botanically pineapple fruit is sorosis.
Sorosis is a fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc, as the breadfruit, mulberry and pineapple.
It is a tropical plant with edible fruit, it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae. Pineapples grow as small shrubs; the individual flowers of the unpollinated plant fuse to form multiple fruits., it is a composite type of fruit, thus also called sorosis type.