Morphology of Flowering Plants Question 65

65. Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from [2006]

(a) a multipistillate syncarpous flower

(b) a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis

(c) a multilocular monocarpellary flower

(d) a unilocular polycarpellary flower

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Answer : b

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(b) Pineapple (Ananas sativus) is a sorosis fruit developed from a composite inflorescence which is actually a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis.