Accessory fruit

Accessory fruit [ Botany ]	Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names
Synonym: False fruit, Pseudocarp

An accessory fruit also called false fruit or pseudocarp is a fruit in which a significant portion of the fleshy part is derived not from the ovary of a flower or flowers (or surrounding stem, if the ovary is inferior) but from some adjacent tissue.

A false berry of Eriosyce napina ssp. lembckei var. duripulpa

Examples are the fig (the fleshy part is a hollow ball with the flowers inside), the strawberry (the fleshy part is a peg with the carpels on it), and the apple (the fleshy part is the peduncle).

All the cactus produce accessory fruits called false berry ( derived from the thickened, fleshy hypanthium fused with the inner ovary wall)

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