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Fruit Classification

This document categorizes and classifies different types of fruits. It outlines the parts of a fruit including the endocarp, mesocarp, and exocarp. Fruits are also classified as simple or multiple as well as dry or fleshy. Some key fruit types discussed are berries, drupes, pomes, legumes, and capsules.

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Fruit Classification

This document categorizes and classifies different types of fruits. It outlines the parts of a fruit including the endocarp, mesocarp, and exocarp. Fruits are also classified as simple or multiple as well as dry or fleshy. Some key fruit types discussed are berries, drupes, pomes, legumes, and capsules.

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FRUIT CLASSIFICATION

FRUIT PARTS FRUIT TYPES

Endocarp Mesocarp
Simple Multiple
Innermost Middle
Derived from Derived from
differentiated layer
a single ovary ovaries of
layer of
in a single several flowers
pericarp Exocarp flower on a common axis
or epicarp
Pericarp
Outermost Aggregate
Fruit wall,
layer of Derived from many
developed
pericarp ovaries of a single flower
from ovary
wall
FRUIT CATEGORIES

Pericarp dry and dehiscent Pericarp dry and indehiscent Pericarp fleshy
Fruit dry-the fruit will split or open Fruit dry but not split at maturity Fruit-juicy, fleshy or with juice sac
at maturity

Berry
Achene Compound ovary. Many seeds (ovules),
Capsule fleshy, difficult to differentiated
One seeded, attached to fruit
Dehisces in various ways between endocarp and mesocarp
wall at one point, fruit derived
from a one locule superior ovary
Follicle Hesperidium
Develops from a single carpel Type of berry, thick leathery rind/peel
Cypsela (skin), numerous oil glands, thick juicy
and open along suture
An achene derived from one locule sac
ovary but inferior ovary
Silicula Pome
Like silique but broader Berrylike fruit derived from inferior ovary.
Caryopsis
Flesh, enlarged hypanthium and the core
One seeded with seed coat derived from ovary. Rosaceae family
Loment adnate/stick to the fruit wall. Poaceae
A legume but separates transversely family Drupe
between send sections Derived from a single carpel and usually
Nut one seeded. Hard endocarp. Exocarp
Silique One seeded, hard pericarp derived thin and mesocarp forms the edible
Dehisces along sutures, central from a one locule ovary flesh
persistent partition
Pepo
Schizocarp Berry from inferior ovary. Outer
Legume / pod consisting of two carpels that splits, wall (rind) consists of receptacle tissue
Dehisces along both suture when mature along the midline into that fused with exocarp. The flesh is
two one seeded indehiscent halves mesocarp and endocarp

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