Fleshy fruit

Fleshy fruit [ Botany ]
Synonym: Succulent fruit

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names


	Fleshy fruit are those **fruits in which part or all of the pericarp (fruit wall) contains a more or less soft, fleshy and juicy pulp around the seed or seeds.**

For example: 1) Fleshy simple fruits: derived from a single ovary (e.g. berries, hesperidiums, pepos, drupe or stones, pomes 2) Fleshy aggregate fruits: derived from a single flowers with many carpels or ovaries (e.g. polydrupes ) 3) Fleshy multiply fruits: derived from compound independent flowers (e.g. figs, pineapple)

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