Pineapple (ananas) fruit develops from

Options

A. A cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis
B. A multilocular monocarpellary flower
C. A unilocular polycarpellary flower
D. A multipistillate syncarpous flower

Answer

A

Explanation

The fruit of Ananas is sorosis develop from spike, spadix or catkin. In this type the flowers associate by their succulent tepals, the axis bearing them grows and becomes fleshy and woody thus the whole inflorescence turns into compact fruit.