Question: Fruit type in fig is
Options:
Syconus
Berry
Pome
Psorosis
✅Explanation:
• Syconus (correct answer): A fig is not a single fruit, but rather a type of fleshy inflorescence called a syconus. An inflorescence is a cluster of flowers on a single stalk. In the case of a fig, the flowers are borne on the inside wall of a hollow receptacle that becomes fleshy and sweet as the fig matures. The tiny flowers inside the syconus develop into single-seeded fruits called achenes.
• Berry: Berries are simple fruits that develop from a single ovary of a flower and have fleshy or juicy inner walls. While the fleshy part of a fig might resemble a berry, it's not derived from a single ovary but from a modified flower stalk.
• Pome: Pome fruits develop from a fleshy hypanthium (fused floral cup) that surrounds the ovary. Apples and pears are classic examples of pomes. Figs lack the characteristic hypanthium structure of a pome.
• Syconus (correct answer): A fig is not a single fruit, but rather a type of fleshy inflorescence called a syconus. An inflorescence is a cluster of flowers on a single stalk. In the case of a fig, the flowers are borne on the inside wall of a hollow receptacle that becomes fleshy and sweet as the fig matures. The tiny flowers inside the syconus develop into single-seeded fruits called achenes.
• Berry: Berries are simple fruits that develop from a single ovary of a flower and have fleshy or juicy inner walls. While the fleshy part of a fig might resemble a berry, it's not derived from a single ovary but from a modified flower stalk.
• Pome: Pome fruits develop from a fleshy hypanthium (fused floral cup) that surrounds the ovary. Apples and pears are classic examples of pomes. Figs lack the characteristic hypanthium structure of a pome.
🛑 Related Terminology:
• Inflorescence: A cluster of flowers on a single stalk.
• Syconium: A type of fleshy inflorescence found in figs.
• Achenes: Single-seeded fruits with a thin, hard wall, like what's found inside a fig.
• Hypanthium: The fleshy cup-like structure that surrounds the ovary in some fruits like pomes.