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A fleshy-fruit with leathery exocarp is ...

A fleshy-fruit with leathery exocarp is called

A

Drupe

B

Berry

C

Pome

D

Hesperidium

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The correct Answer is:
D
Hesperidium: It is a berry with a firm, hard and leathery pericarp as in citrus. The fruit develops from polycarpellary, syncarpous and superior ovary.
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