Botanically litchi fruit is a: (NSCL 2019)

✅Explanation: Litchi is classified as a drupe because it has a single seed enclosed in a hard stony endocarp (pit), surrounded by a fleshy mesocarp (edible part), and a thin exocarp (skin).

📌 Other Options Explanations:
-Nut: Nuts have a hard, dry shell enclosing a single seed.
-Pome: Pomes have a core with multiple seeds surrounded by fleshy tissue.
-Berry: Berries have multiple seeds embedded within the fleshy fruit.

🔑Key Points:
-Fruit is a mature or ripened ovary, develops after fertilization.
-During fertilization, the important changes taking place in the ovary are –
-The ovules present in it develop into seeds.
-The wall of the ovary thickens and ripens into the pericarp (fruit wall).
-The fruit consists of wall or pericarp and seeds. The pericarp may be dry or fleshy.
-When the pericarp is thick and fleshy, it is differentiated into the outer pericarp, the middle mesocarp, and the inner endocarp.
-Aril is the edible part of litchi.
-Litchi is a fleshy aril.
-Aril is a fleshy covering on the seed.
-The aril develops as an upgrowth of the funicle or base of the ovule.
-Litchi is a false fruit.
-Fruit that develops from any part of the flower along with the ovary is called False fruit.
-Aril is s fleshy part which forms a fruit wall or a seed coat.