Accessory fruit

In a false fruit is morphologically mostly collecting fruits, rare fruit to associations. For them, the flesh is not just the thickened carpel like the real fruit, but ( also ) from other plant parts such as the base of the flower or the inflorescence axis, which thicken to pulp during ripening process.

Animals eat the nutrient-rich plant tissue together with the seeds, which are later excreted undigested; this is thus the spread of the actual fruits.

The actual fruits are mostly stone fruits and nuts.

Especially the Rosaceae family representatives, including many well-known fruit species include, in addition to the actual fruit also train false fruits. A well-known genus of this plant family, the strawberry (Fragaria ), is one of the special case of collective nut fruits. In her thickens the fruit ground and outside there are the small nutlets. The core body of the apple fruit consists of several Balgfrüchten, is thus of intergrown with yourself carpels formed. This Sammelbalgfrucht is completely surrounded by the pulp, which is formed from the thickening base of the flower. In contrast, the collecting stone fruits of blackberry (Rubus fruticosus ) and raspberry (Rubus idaeus ) are not part of the bill fruits. In these, the fruit forms only from the carpels of the flower.

Fruit Stand | Scheinfrucht

Scattered fruit: follicle | legume | fruit capsule | pod

Indehiscent fruits: berries | nut fruit | caryopsis | achene | drupe

Decay of fruits: schizocarp | broken fruit | fruit Klaus

Collecting fruits: apple fruit | Sammelbalgfrucht | TCG berry | collective nut fruit | collection drupe

Fruit Associations: berry fruit Association | nut fruit Association | Stone Fruit Association

• Plant morphology
• Fruit