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

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