simple fruits

  • a single flower with a single pistil
  • dry
      • achene: strawberry; cannabis; buttercup; buckwheat; caraway; quinoa; amaranth
      • capsule: brazil nut; horse-chestnut
      • caryopsis: grains, including wheat; rice; oats; barley
      • fibrous drupe: coconut; walnut
      • follicle: milkweed; magnolia; peony
      • legume: bean; pea; peanut
      • loment: sweetvetch
      • nut: beechnut; hazlenut; oak acorns
      • samara: ash; elm; maple key
      • schizocarp: carrot seed
      • silique: radish seed
      • silicle: shepherd’s purse
      • utricle: beet
  • fleshy
      • berry: grape; currant; cucumber; eggplant; tomato; chili pepper; banana; citrus; blueberry; guava; kiwi; pomegranate; lucuma; watermelon; pumpkin; melon
      • stone fruit/drupe: apricot; cherry; olive; peach; plum; mango
      • pome: apple; pear; rosehip; saskatoon berry

aggregate fruits

  • a single flower with numerous pistils
  • ex: raspberry; blackberry; boysenberry; magnolia; pawapaw

multiple (composite) fruits)

  • merging of several flowers, of a ‘multiple’ of flowers
  • ex: pineapple; fig; mulberry; osage orange; breadfruit

hybrid fruits

  • nectaplum: nectarines + plums
  • pluot, aprium, apriplum, plumcot, plumpicots, pluclots: plum + apricot
  • tangelo: Citris reticulata (mandarin orange; tangarine) + Citrus maxima (pomelo; grapefruit)
      • jamaican tangelo, ugli fruit, uniq fruit: tangerine or orange + grapefruit or pomelo -
  • mandarinquat: mandarin + kumquat
  • strawberry: Fragaria virginiana (Virginia strawberry; wild strawberry; common strawberry; mountain strawberry) + Fragaria chiloensis (beach strawberry, Chilean strawberry, coastal strawberry)
  • rangpur, mandarin lime, lemandarin: mandarin orange + citron
  • blood lime: Citrus australasica (finger lime; caviar lime) + ‘Ellendale Mandarin’ hybrid
  • tayberry: blackberry + red raspberry
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