Accessory fruit
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An accessory fruit is a fruit that contains tissue derived from plant parts other than the ovary. In other words, the flesh of the fruit develops not from the floral ovary, but from some adjacent tiss
A selection of accessory fruits (from left to right: pear, fig, and strawberry)
Apple section, showing seeds plus papery expression of the ovary, surrounded by tissue formed from ripening of the hypanthium.
On this strawberry, the many pips located on the surface have grown into leafy structures rather than seeds in a phenomenon known as phyllody. The pips of the strawberry are its true fruit.
The cashew 'apple' and its attached drupe, which contains the edible seed.
Strawberry
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The garden strawberry is a widely grown hybrid plant cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The genus Fragaria, the strawberries, is in the rose family, Rosaceae. The fruit is appreciated for its aroma,
Accessory fruit
…family; the fact that they have similar fruit morphology is a major consideration in placing them in the same taxonomic family. The edible part of the strawberry is formed, as part of the ripening process, from the receptacle of the strawberry flower. The true fruits (hence, containing the seeds) are the roughly…
Garden strawberry single 2
Garden strawberry
Fragaria vesca, the small wild woodland strawberry, was commonly collected from the wild
In the east, the grassland species Fragaria viridis was used like F.vesca