Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from

Options

A. a multipistillate synacrpous flower
B. a cluster of compacity borne flowers on a common axis
C. a multilocular monocarellary flower
D. a uncilocular polycarpellary flower

Answer

B

Explanation

The fruit of Ananas comosus (pineapple or ananas) is sorosis, (a type of multiple fruits), developing from spike, spadix or catkin. In this type, the flowers associate by their succulent tepals, the axis bearing them grows and becomes fleshy or woody, thus, the whole inflorescence turns into a compact fruit.