An aggregate fruit develops from a single flower. Explain the statement with suitable example.

Explanation

1. An aggregate fruit develops from a single flower, with multicarpellary, arocarpous, superior ovaries and each of them develops into simple fruitlets.
2. An aggregate fruit, therefore consists of a collection of simple fruits as in Polyalthai.
3. The carpels of the flower unite and give rise to a single fruit as in Annona squamosa.